Apache Pinot Resources
StarTree Cloud, our fully-managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), is powered by Apache Pinot™. Apache Pinot was designed from the ground up for fast, scalable real-time, user-facing analytics. Discover more about Apache Pinot with this collection of resources to get you started on your journey.
Fundamentals
Learn about fundamental concepts and terms
What is Apache Pinot™?
Apache Pinot is an open source distributed database designed for real-time, user-facing analytics.
What is Real-Time Analytics?
Real-time analytics is a computer science discipline wherein massive amounts of data generated in relatively short time needs to be ingested, stored, and indexed, followed by additional processes that can search, filter, aggregate, and process that stored data against specific queries to produce results.
What is User-Facing Analytics?
User-facing analytics, or customer-facing analytics, are a subset of the domain of real-time analytics that provide massively concurrent query support.
Pinot Videos
Watch to learn how and why you should embrace real-time analytics powered by Apache Pinot.
What is Apache Pinot? (and User-Facing Analytics)
A lightoard video brought to you by Tim Berglund.
What is Real-Time Analytics?
A lightboard video brought to you by Tim Berglund
Building a Real-Time Analytics Platform
Lakshmi Rao explains how Stripe is powering its real-time platform with Pinot.
Apache Pinot User Stories
Learn from your peers and industry leaders how and why they moved to Apache Pinot for their real-time analytics use cases
Video
Apache Pinot vs Apache Druid & Real-Time Analytics (LinkedIn Profile Insights)
StarTree CEO, Kishore Gopalakrishna, discusses Apache Pinot and performance comparisons with Apache Druid at Crunch Data Conference 2018 in Budapest.
External Article
Uber: Real-Time Analytics for Mobile App Crashes using Apache Pinot
Uber shares details on how they are leveraging Apache Pinot™ to achieve this in real time at Uber scale.
Video
Stripe: Building a Real-Time Analytics Platform
Pinot powers user-facing interactions, internal use cases, and supports various platform offerings within Stripe.
Apache Pinot Blogs
Read more about adopting real-time analytics powered by Apache Pinot in your own organization.
Apache Pinot
Star-Tree Indexes in Apache Pinot - Part 1: Understanding the Impact on Query Performance
Star-tree is a specialized index in Apache Pinot. This index dynamically builds a tree structure to maintain aggregates for a group of dimensions. With star-tree Index, the query latency becomes a function of just a tree traversal with computational complexity of log(n).
Apache Pinot
What's Next in the Apache Pinot™ Roadmap for 2023?
Discover the roadmap and the ongoing work behind Apache Pinot’s evolution, including the multi-stage query engine for query-time JOINs, and other innovations.
Apache PinotOLAP
What Makes Apache Pinot Fast: Chapter 1
Discover how Pinot provides sub-second scale at high workloads.
Compare
See how Apache Pinot compares to other alternatives, and why we believe it is the best database for real-time, user-facing analytics.
Blog
Apache Pinot vs. Apache Druid vs. Clickhouse
Take a deep dive into these three popular real-time analytics databases.
Resources
Apache Pinot vs. Apache Druid
See how these two popular open source databases compare side-by-side.
Resources
Apache Pinot vs. Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a great search engine, but it wasn’t designed for real-time, user-facing analytics.
Developer Resources
Get started on your journey into real-time analytics with Apache Pinot today!
Apache Pinot and the Apache Software Foundation
Apache Pinot is a trademark and Top Level Project (TLP) of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). No endorsement by The Apache Software Foundation is implied by the use of this mark.
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