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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    What is Real-Time Analytics?

    A lightboard video brought to you by Tim Berglund

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    Building a Real-Time Analytics Platform

    Lakshmi Rao explains how Stripe is powering its real-time platform with Pinot.

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    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.

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    Video

    Building Latency Sensitive User Facing Analytics via Apache Pinot

    Chinmay Soman discusses how LinkedIn, Uber and other companies managed to have low latency for analytical database queries in spite of high throughput.

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    External Article

    Text analytics on LinkedIn Talent Insights using Apache Pinot

    Implementing and integrating keyword search with Pinot on the LinkedIn Talent Insights application.

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    Apache Pinot Blogs

    Read more about adopting real-time analytics powered by Apache Pinot in your own organization.

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    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).

    Sandeep Dabade
    Sandeep Dabade
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    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.

    Mark Needham
    Mark Needham
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    What Makes Apache Pinot Fast: Chapter 1

    Discover how Pinot provides sub-second scale at high workloads.

    Chinmay Soman
    Neha Pawar
    Neha Pawar+1
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    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.

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    Resources

    Apache Pinot vs. Apache Druid

    See how these two popular open source databases compare side-by-side.

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    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.

    Discover more about the ASF and its mission to incubate and support freely-available, enterprise-grade open-source software.