Catalog overview
Default catalog
StarRocks provides an internal catalog to manage the internal data of StarRocks.
Hive catalog
A Hive catalog is a kind of external catalog that enables you to query data from Apache Hive without ingestion.
Iceberg catalog
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Hudi catalog
A Hudi catalog is a kind of external catalog that enables you to query data from Apache Hudi without ingestion.
Delta Lake catalog
Query data directly from Delta Lake
JDBC catalog
Use a JDBC catalog to query data in databases reached through JDBC without loading it into StarRocks.
Elasticsearch catalog
StarRocks supports Elasticsearch catalogs from v3.1 onwards.
Paimon catalog
A Paimon catalog is a kind of external catalog that enables you to query data from Apache Paimon without ingestion.
Unified catalog
A unified catalog in StarRocks handles tables from several data lake formats, such as Hive, Iceberg, Hudi, and Delta Lake, in a single catalog.
MaxCompute catalog
StarRocks supports Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) catalogs from v3.3 onwards.
Kudu catalog
StarRocks supports Kudu catalogs from v3.3 onwards.
Query external data
How to query data from external sources in StarRocks using external catalogs.
Overview
Use catalogs to manage internal and external data in one system, and to query data stored in external systems without loading it into StarRocks.