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Apache Pinot

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Overview

A real-time distributed OLAP datastore designed to execute low-latency analytical queries over streaming and historical data at massive scale.

Key Features

  • Ultra-low latency SQL queries (sub-50ms) over billions of rows.

  • Pluggable indexing (inverted, star-tree, range, text, JSON, geospatial).

  • Real-time streaming ingestion from Kafka, Pulsar, and Kinesis.

  • Multi-stage query engine for distributed joins and window functions.

Use Cases

Powering real-time user-facing analytics, ride-share dispatch metrics, and live anomaly detection.

Getting Started

Launch quickstart cluster via `./bin/quick-start-streaming.sh` and access console at `localhost:9000`.

Recent Updates

Added vector indexing for similarity search and enhanced distributed join optimizations.

Did You Know?

Apache Pinot is widely utilized across the cloud native and open source ecosystem.