StarRocks

Jun 4, 2026 · Databases

How StarRocks and Iceberg Enable Federated Queries: A Practical Walkthrough

This article details Fresha's real‑world integration of StarRocks with Apache Iceberg, covering metadata planning, distributed execution, adaptive metadata retrieval, hot‑cold data layering, missing statistics handling, catalog configuration, and performance optimizations that together demonstrate how federated queries can be efficiently executed over data‑lake tables.