Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform

Nov 6, 2026 · Databases

EMR Serverless StarRocks × Lance: Unifying Multimodal Search and Analytics in One SQL

Alibaba Cloud's EMR Serverless StarRocks integrates Lance's vector search into its distributed SQL engine, enabling single-query hybrid retrieval and relational analytics on multimodal data, demonstrated by a 2-billion-vector e-commerce case achieving 16x faster hybrid search and 40x lower latency.