What is starrocks built with?

Q: Which repos have a stack like starrocks's?

The ones that share most of its stack: apache/flink, conductor-oss/conductor, and appsmithorg/appsmith.

starrocks is a Java repo built with grpc-bom, jetty-io, jetty-server, jetty-servlet, jetty-util, and 5 more. It stores its data in Postgres, reaches it with SQLAlchemy, alembic, and org.jdbi:jdbi3-core, signs people in with hadoop-auth, ranger-plugins-common, com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt, software.amazon.awssdk:sts, and com.azure:azure-identity, stores files in AWS S3, makes its content with javax.activation, jdom2, org.apache.velocity:velocity-engine-core, and com.opencsv:opencsv, validates its data with commons-validator and javax.validation:validation-api, is tested with jmockit, org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter, Pytest, pymysql, and org.apache.commons:commons-dbcp2, deploys with commons-daemon, commons-logging, jul-to-slf4j, log4j-1.2-api, log4j-layout-template-json, and 5 more, and uses arrow-c-data, asyncmy2, azure-sdk-bom, ClickHouse, cos_api-bundle, and 49 more. It has 1,905,864 written lines, with 2,528 test files.

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Backend

Data 55

org.apache.arrow:arrow-jdbc31 files
Postgres4 files · fe/build.gradle.kts, line 264
ClickHouse
MariaDB
PostgreSQL
Trino
org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-client-api109 files
com.github.ben-manes.caffeine:caffeine37 files
software.amazon.awssdk:glue20 files
com.aliyun.odps:odps-sdk-table-api12 files
org.apache.kudu:kudu-client8 files
org.apache.avro:avro5 files

43 more

org.apache.parquet:parquet-hadoop4 files
com.zaxxer:HikariCP3 files
org.apache.orc:orc-core3 files
org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-hdfs2 files
com.aliyun.datalake:metastore-client-hive31 file
com.azure:azure-storage-blob1 file
org.apache.arrow:flight-sql1 file
software.amazon.awssdk:dynamodb1 file
software.amazon.awssdk:kms1 file
arrow-c-data
asyncmy2
azure-sdk-bom
cos_api-bundle
flight-sql-jdbc-driver
hadoop-aliyun
hadoop-aws
hadoop-azure
hadoop-azure-datalake
hadoop-client
hadoop-common
hadoop-cos
hadoop-hdfs-native-client
hadoop-hdfs-nfs
hadoop-mapreduce-client-core
hadoop-nfs
hbase-client
hbase-server
hive-apache
iceberg-api
iceberg-aws
iceberg-core
iceberg-hive-metastore
iceberg-parquet
kafka-clients
mssql-jdbc
odps-sdk-core
paimon-s3
parquet-avro
s3
s3-transfer-manager
spark-sql_2.12
url-connection-client
zookeeper

Data access 3

SQLAlchemy13 files
alembic1 file
org.jdbi:jdbi3-core1 file

Sign-in 5

com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt8 files
software.amazon.awssdk:sts4 files
com.azure:azure-identity1 file
hadoop-auth
ranger-plugins-common

Services 1

AWS S31 file · fe/fe-core/src/main/java/com/starrocks/sql/analyzer/StorageAccessException.java, line 19

Support

The base 10

org.apache.flink:flink-core
com.google.inject:guice1 file
grpc-bom
jetty-io
jetty-server
jetty-servlet
jetty-util
jetty-webapp
spark-core_2.12
tomcat-embed-core

Content 4

org.apache.velocity:velocity-engine-core18 files
com.opencsv:opencsv1 file
javax.activation
jdom2

Validation 2

javax.validation:validation-api60 files
commons-validator

Testing 5

Pytest37 files
org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter2,305 files
pymysql3 files
org.apache.commons:commons-dbcp21 file
jmockit

Deploy 10

OpenTelemetry15 files
org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api
org.slf4j:slf4j-api41 files
org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core1 file
commons-daemon
commons-logging
jul-to-slf4j
log4j-1.2-api
log4j-layout-template-json
log4j-slf4j-impl

Tools 10

org.antlr:antlr4-runtime11 files
org.openjdk.jol:jol-core1 file
asm
asm-util
async-profiler
checkstyle
commons-cli
ivy
jsr305
org.jacoco.agent

Other 73

Google544 files
Apache71 files
Esoteric Software5 files
io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-context2 files
Scala
org.apache.commons:commons-collections4162 files
org.apache.commons:commons-lang3160 files
io.netty:netty-handler87 files
javax.annotation:javax.annotation-api54 files
com.google.api-client:google-api-client37 files
com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind20 files
org.json:json15 files

61 more

com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core11 files
org.roaringbitmap:RoaringBitmap9 files
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient7 files
org.apache.commons:commons-math35 files
javax.inject:javax.inject3 files
com.squareup.okio:okio2 files
io.airlift:slice2 files
it.unimi.dsi:fastutil2 files
com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-yaml1 file
com.fasterxml.uuid:java-uuid-generator1 file
com.github.luben:zstd-jni1 file
com.github.vertical-blank:sql-formatter1 file
io.airlift:concurrent1 file
lark1 file
net.openhft:zero-allocation-hashing1 file
aircompressor
arrow-memory-netty
bcpkix-jdk18on
bcprov-jdk18on
bcutil-jdk18on
bom
byte-buddy
byte-buddy-agent
commons-beanutils
commons-codec
commons-collections
commons-io
commons-lang
dnsjava
grpc-api
grpc-core
grpc-netty-shaded
grpc-protobuf
grpc-stub
hadoop-hdfs-httpfs
hadoop-hdfs-rbf
hadoop-kms
hadoop-registry
httpcore
httpcore5
iceberg-bundled-guava
ipaddress
jackson-annotations
jackson-jaxrs-base
jackson-jaxrs-json-provider
jackson-module-jaxb-annotations
jaxws-api
jetty-client
logging-interceptor
lz4-java
netty-all
netty-bom
netty-nio-client
netty-transport-native-epoll
okhttp
okio-jvm
oshi-core
quartz
snappy-java
xnio-nio
xz

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Frequently asked questions

What language is starrocks written in?

starrocks is written in Java, with 1,905,864 written lines.

What framework does starrocks use?

starrocks is built with grpc-bom, jetty-io, jetty-server, jetty-servlet, jetty-util, jetty-webapp, org.apache.flink:flink-core, spark-core_2.12, tomcat-embed-core, and com.google.inject:guice.

What database does starrocks use?

starrocks stores its data in Postgres and reaches it with SQLAlchemy, alembic, and org.jdbi:jdbi3-core.

The proof: fe/build.gradle.kts, line 264

What does starrocks sign people in with?

starrocks signs people in with hadoop-auth, ranger-plugins-common, com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt, software.amazon.awssdk:sts, and com.azure:azure-identity.

What services does starrocks use?

starrocks stores files in AWS S3 and uses arrow-c-data, asyncmy2, azure-sdk-bom, ClickHouse, cos_api-bundle, flight-sql-jdbc-driver, hadoop-aliyun, hadoop-aws, hadoop-azure, hadoop-azure-datalake, hadoop-client, hadoop-common, hadoop-cos, hadoop-hdfs-native-client, hadoop-hdfs-nfs, hadoop-mapreduce-client-core, hadoop-nfs, hbase-client, hbase-server, hive-apache, iceberg-api, iceberg-aws, iceberg-core, iceberg-hive-metastore, iceberg-parquet, kafka-clients, MariaDB, mssql-jdbc, odps-sdk-core, paimon-s3, parquet-avro, PostgreSQL, s3, s3-transfer-manager, spark-sql_2.12, Trino, url-connection-client, zookeeper, org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-client-api, com.github.ben-manes.caffeine:caffeine, org.apache.arrow:arrow-jdbc, software.amazon.awssdk:glue, com.aliyun.odps:odps-sdk-table-api, org.apache.kudu:kudu-client, org.apache.avro:avro, org.apache.parquet:parquet-hadoop, com.zaxxer:HikariCP, org.apache.orc:orc-core, org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-hdfs, com.aliyun.datalake:metastore-client-hive3, com.azure:azure-storage-blob, org.apache.arrow:flight-sql, software.amazon.awssdk:dynamodb, and software.amazon.awssdk:kms.

The proof: fe/fe-core/src/main/java/com/starrocks/sql/analyzer/StorageAccessException.java, line 19

Does starrocks have tests?

Yes. starrocks has 2,528 test files and is tested with jmockit, org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter, Pytest, pymysql, and org.apache.commons:commons-dbcp2.

Which repos have a stack like starrocks's?

The ones that share most of its stack:apache/flink conductor-oss/conductor appsmithorg/appsmith