# StarRocks Documentation > StarRocks is an open-source, high-performance OLAP database for real-time analytics at scale. It supports Standard SQL, materialized views, data lakes (Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi), stream ingestion (Kafka, Flink), and cloud-native deployment. This documentation covers SQL reference, table design, data loading, query acceleration, administration, and release notes. ## Administration - [Administration](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/administration/llms.txt): section index of 64 documentation pages. ## Benchmarking - [SSB Flat-table Benchmarking](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/benchmarking/SSB_Benchmarking.md): SSB flat-table benchmark on 100 GB dataset: StarRocks is 1.87x faster than ClickHouse and 4.75x faster than Apache Druid across 13 queries. - [TPC-DS test SQL](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/benchmarking/tpc_ds_99_sql.md): Complete SQL text for all 99 TPC-DS benchmark queries used in StarRocks performance testing. - [TPC-DS Benchmarking](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/benchmarking/TPC_DS_Benchmark.md): TPC-DS benchmark on 1 TB dataset: StarRocks is 8.13x faster than Trino on OLAP tables and 6.93x faster on Iceberg Catalog queries (99 queries). - [TPC-H Benchmark](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/benchmarking/TPC-H_Benchmarking.md): TPC-H benchmark on 100 GB dataset: StarRocks native storage is 8.9x faster than Trino; StarRocks Hive external tables are 2x faster than Trino (22 queries). ## Best_practices - [Best_practices](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/best_practices/llms.txt): section index of 16 documentation pages. ## Data_source - [Data_source](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/data_source/llms.txt): section index of 30 documentation pages. ## Deployment - [Deployment](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/deployment/llms.txt): section index of 13 documentation pages. ## Developers - [Developers](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/developers/llms.txt): section index of 15 documentation pages. ## Faq - [Faq](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/faq/llms.txt): section index of 20 documentation pages. ## Flink_connector - [Releases of StarRocks Connector for Flink](https://docs.starrocks.io/releasenotes/flink_connector.md): Release notes and changelog for the StarRocks Connector for Apache Flink. ## Integrations - [Integrations](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/integrations/llms.txt): section index of 36 documentation pages. ## Introduction - [Architecture](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/Architecture.md): StarRocks has a simple architecture. - [Feature Differences between Shared-nothing and Shared-data Clusters](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/feature_difference.md): Comparison of features supported in StarRocks shared-nothing versus shared-data cluster deployments. - [Database Features](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/Features.md): StarRocks offers a rich set of features to deliver a blazing-fast, real-time analytics experience on data at scale. - [Beta and experimental features](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/maturity.md): Explains StarRocks feature maturity levels: Experimental, Beta, Generally Available (GA), Deprecated, and End-of-Life, and what each means for production use. - [StarRocks](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/StarRocks_intro.md): StarRocks is a next-gen, high-performance analytical data warehouse that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analysis. - [Version naming](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/versioning.md): StarRocks version naming conventions: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format, prerelease designations, and how to interpret version numbers. - [What is StarRocks?](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/what_is_starrocks.md): StarRocks is a next-generation, blazing-fast massively parallel processing (MPP) database designed to make real-time analytics easy for enterprises. ## Kafka_connector - [Releases of StarRocks Connector for Kafka](https://docs.starrocks.io/releasenotes/kafka_connector.md): Release notes and changelog for the StarRocks Connector for Apache Kafka. ## Loading - [Loading](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/loading/llms.txt): section index of 34 documentation pages. ## Project_help - [Community Chat (via Slack)](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/project_help/slack.md): How to join the StarRocks community chat on Slack. ## Quick_start - [Quick Start](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/quick_start.md): Deploy StarRocks with Docker Compose, Helm, and StarRocks Operator - [StarRocks with Helm](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/quick_start/helm.md): Quick start guide for deploying StarRocks on Kubernetes using Helm. - [Apache Hudi Lakehouse](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/quick_start/hudi.md): Quick start guide for querying Apache Hudi data lakes with StarRocks. - [Apache Iceberg Lakehouse](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/quick_start/iceberg.md): Quick start guide for querying Apache Iceberg data lakes with StarRocks. - [Claude + StarRocks MCP](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/quick_start/MCP.md): Analyze complex data with Claude and the StarRocks MCP server on a shared-data cluster. - [Kafka routine load StarRocks using shared-data storage](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/quick_start/routine-load.md): Quick start guide for streaming data from Kafka into StarRocks using Routine Load with shared-data storage. - [Separate storage and compute](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/quick_start/shared-data.md): Quick start guide for deploying StarRocks in shared-data mode with separate compute and storage. - [Deploy StarRocks with Docker](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/quick_start/shared-nothing.md): StarRocks in Docker: Query real data with JOINs ## Release 2.5 - [StarRocks version 2.5](https://docs.starrocks.io/releasenotes/release-2.5.md): StarRocks 2.5 release notes: Delta Lake catalog, Data Cache for external storage, Query Cache, query queues, resource groups for data loading, STRUCT/MAP... ## Release 3.0 - [StarRocks version 3.0](https://docs.starrocks.io/releasenotes/release-3.0.md): StarRocks 3.0 release notes: new aggregate functions (percentile_disc), GROUP BY compatibility improvements, and storage engine and query engine updates. ## Release 3.1 - [StarRocks version 3.1](https://docs.starrocks.io/releasenotes/release-3.1.md): StarRocks 3.1 release notes: bug fixes and improvements to shared-data architecture, asynchronous materialized views, and cross-cluster data migration tool. ## Release 3.2 - [StarRocks version 3.2](https://docs.starrocks.io/releasenotes/release-3.2.md): StarRocks 3.2 release notes: Unified Catalog for Hive/Iceberg/Hudi/Delta Lake, Hive managed table creation, Primary Key index persistence on disk in... ## Release 3.3 - [StarRocks version 3.3](https://docs.starrocks.io/releasenotes/release-3.3.md): StarRocks 3.3 release notes: sub-second DDL via Fast Schema Evolution in shared-data, StarRocks Data Migration Tool, CACHE SELECT for data lake warmup,... ## Release 3.4 - [StarRocks version 3.4](https://docs.starrocks.io/releasenotes/release-3.4.md): StarRocks 3.4 release notes: Iceberg Time Travel, Python UDFs, vector indexes (IVFPQ/HNSW) for approximate nearest neighbor search, unified expression... ## Release 3.5 - [StarRocks version 3.5](https://docs.starrocks.io/releasenotes/release-3.5.md): StarRocks 3.5 release notes: Iceberg view creation, OAuth 2.0 and JWT authentication with Security Integration, multi-partition-column materialized views,... ## Release 4.0 - [StarRocks version 4.0](https://docs.starrocks.io/releasenotes/release-4.0.md): StarRocks 4.0 release notes: DECIMAL256 type, File Bundling for shared-data clusters, Multi-Table Write-Write Transactions, Iceberg compaction and hidden... ## Release 4.1 - [StarRocks version 4.1](https://docs.starrocks.io/releasenotes/release-4.1.md): StarRocks 4.1 release notes: multi-tenant range-based tablet auto-splitting, large-capacity tablet support (100 GB target), Fast Schema Evolution V2 for... ## Search - [Search the documentation](https://docs.starrocks.io/search.md) ## Spark_connector - [Releases of StarRocks Connector for Spark](https://docs.starrocks.io/releasenotes/spark_connector.md): Release notes and changelog for the StarRocks Connector for Apache Spark. ## Sql Reference - [Sql Reference](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/sql-reference/llms.txt): section index of 731 documentation pages. ## Starrocks Kubernetes Operator - [Releases of Kubernetes Operator for StarRocks](https://docs.starrocks.io/releasenotes/starrocks-kubernetes-operator.md): The Operator provided by StarRocks is used to deploy StarRocks clusters in the Kubernetes environment. ## Table_design - [Table_design](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/llms.txt): section index of 23 documentation pages. ## Unloading - [Unloading](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/unloading/llms.txt): section index of 7 documentation pages. ## Using_starrocks - [Using_starrocks](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/using_starrocks/llms.txt): section index of 26 documentation pages.