StarRocks is launching its first managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) possibility, underpinned by the open supply Apache Doris venture.
The brand new cloud-native StarRocks Cloud service will provide a fully-managed model of the StarRocks SQL-compatible massively parallel processing (MPP) knowledge warehouse, principally concentrating on on-line transaction processing (OLAP) workloads. The corporate claims that it might probably return queries quicker and at a decrease value than present choices.
Based in Could 2020 by a gaggle of staff from the Chinese language search large Baidu, the corporate has raised greater than $60 million in enterprise capital up to now, together with a $40 million in Collection B financing again in February 2021.
“The managed service will assist us compete with the likes of ClickHouse and Apache Druid within the North American market, the place these choices are fashionable,” Li Kang, vp of technique at StarRocks stated.
StarRocks Cloud can be priced on a pay-as-you-go mannequin primarily based on knowledge and compute consumption ranges, with pay as you go enterprise pricing additionally out there.
The software-as-a-service product can combine with present knowledge infrastructure, the corporate stated, and can turn into typically out there on the AWS cloud platform within the third quarter of this yr, shortly adopted by Google Cloud Platform.
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