About StarRocks
StarRocks is an open-source analytical database for low-latency, interactive SQL analytics.
Discovering Fluss tables through an external catalog
The Fluss External Catalog lets StarRocks discover Fluss databases and tables and query them with standard SQL. Users do not need to load the data into StarRocks or manually create external tables. The current integration requires Fluss tables with lake tiering enabled and Apache Paimon as the lake storage.
Choosing between unified, historical, and real-time reads
Union Read combines historical data tiered into Paimon with the latest real-time data in Fluss. The $lake table suffix reads only the historical lake data, while the $rt suffix reads fresh data directly from Fluss. These modes let teams query both layers together or choose the data they need.
Connecting streaming storage to interactive analytics
Fluss provides the streaming storage layer while StarRocks serves interactive SQL queries across real-time and historical data. The integration has been merged into the StarRocks main branch and, according to the community submission, is planned for StarRocks 4.2. The current documentation marks the Fluss Catalog as experimental.