Catalog overview
📄️ Overview
This topic describes what a catalog is, and how to manage and query internal data and external data by using a catalog.
📄️ Default catalog
This topic describes what the default catalog is, and how to query the internal data of StarRocks by using the default catalog.
📄️ Hive catalog
A Hive catalog is a kind of external catalog that enables you to query data from Apache Hive™ without ingestion. Also, you can directly transform and load data from Hive by using INSERT INTO based on Hive catalogs.
📄️ Iceberg catalog
An Iceberg catalog is a type of external catalog that is supported by StarRocks from v2.4 onwards. With Iceberg catalogs, you can:
📄️ 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
A Delta Lake catalog is a kind of external catalog that enables you to query data from Delta Lake without ingestion.
📄️ JDBC catalog
StarRocks supports JDBC catalogs from v3.0 onwards.
📄️ Elasticsearch catalog
StarRocks supports Elasticsearch catalogs from v3.1 onwards.
📄️ Paimon catalog
StarRocks supports Paimon catalogs from v3.1 onwards.
📄️ Query external data
This topic guides you through querying data from external data sources by using external catalogs.