StarRocks Is Not Enterprise Ready

TL;DR StarRocks has critical limitations in memory stability, data correctness, real-time ingestion, and enterprise security that make it unsuitable for most production enterprise workloads in 2026. I analyzed 50+ GitHub issues, 15+ community forum threads, 6+ practitioner Medium articles, and the official documentation to assess StarRocks' enterprise readiness. Memory management is the #1 operational pain point. BE nodes crash with OOM under load, memory tracking is wildly inaccurate (reporting 65GB used when actual is 1.5GB), and memory leaks span 30+ GitHub issues across 5+ years. This isn't a bug. It's a pattern. Three independent silent data correctness bugs produce wrong results without any error or warning: Iceberg cache serves permanently stale data, Arrow Flight silently drops rows, and RAND() pushdown returns zero rows on valid queries. The Cost-Based Optimizer selects plans that cause 10x+ query regressions when statistics are stale. StarRocks' own 2025 roadmap acknowledges