Inside StarRocks: Why Joins Are Faster Than You’d Expect
Summary
This official StarRocks blog post provides a thorough technical deep-dive into how StarRocks makes multi-table joins fast in OLAP workloads. It covers the cost-based optimizer, join fundamentals, logical optimizations, join reordering strategies, and distributed join planning, with real-world case studies from NAVER, Demandbase, and Shopee. Practical guidelines accompany the theory, illustrating how to achieve efficient join execution in distributed environments.