StarRocks Solution Background and Pain Points • Performance Gains: 50% reduction in p90 latency with only 32% of the previous infrastructure, tripling cost-performance efficiency. ~1200 QPS. • Data Freshness: Achieved 10-second data freshness, streamlined ingestion. • Cost comparison: Druid 300 nodes vs StarRocks: 81 nodes, over $2M saved! • Pinterest serves over 500 million users, with advertisers relying on real-time insights to optimize their campaigns. • The existing system using Druid struggled with increasing data scale, high costs, and lacked advanced SQL support. • Complex, multi-dimensional queries and the need for real-time aggregations created performance challenges. Benefits • Real-Time Aggregation: aggregate tables • Query Performance: vectorized query engine, query caching, materialized views • Data ingestion: Use ANSI SQL and eliminated JSON configs. Partner insight is a customer facing dashboard service for advertisers Medium blog post by Pinterest Engineering StarRocks x Pinterest meetup: Customer Facing Analytics that Pays