StarRocks Lakehouse: Internal Tables vs. Paimon/Iceberg – 5-10x Performance Gains
The article benchmarks StarRocks internal tables against Paimon and Iceberg lake tables using TPCH 100G, shows internal tables excel at real-time analytics while lake tables optimize cold storage cost and multi-engine sharing, and details optimization strategies (metadata, data cache, predicate pushdown) achieving 5-10x speedup, illustrated by a retail case study cutting query latency from seconds to milliseconds and storage cost by 65%.
