pinot VS PostgreSQL

Apache Pinot: Tailored for providing ultra-low latency analytics at scale. Apache Pinot is widely used for real-time analytical solutions where rapid data insights and decision-making are critical.

Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases like Apache Druid, Apache Pinot, and ClickHouse shine in addressing user-initiated analytical queries. You might write a query to analyze historical data to find the most-clicked products over the past month efficiently using OLAP databases. When contrasting with streaming databases, they may not be optimized for incremental computation, leading to challenges in maintaining the freshness of results. The query in the streaming database focuses on recent data, making it suitable for continuous monitoring. Using streaming databases, you can run queries like finding the top 10 sold products where the “top 10 product list” might change in real-time.

Consume data into third party software (then let Open Search or Apache Spark or Apache Pinot) for analysis/datascience, GIS systems (so you can put reports on a map) or any ticket management system

There is indeed Spark support for writing new data into Pinot (https://docs.pinot.apache.org/basics/data-import/batch-inges...) as well as to query it (https://github.com/apache/pinot/blob/master/pinot-connectors...).

This does not run inside the Pinot cluster - you can use standard Spark execution engine to run this ingestion. In addition, Pinot also supports an out of the box ingestion capability from batch sources using the Minion framework (https://docs.pinot.apache.org/basics/components/cluster/mini...) that does not need any external component (like Spark)

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My name is Peter Corless and I am the Director of Product Marketing at StarTree (https://startree.ai/). We are a Mountain View, California based company and aer now opening an engineering operation in Bangalore, India.

We make StarTree Cloud, an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for real-time, user-facing analytics, powered by Apache Pinot.

Apache Pinot (https://pinot.apache.org/) is a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF) project that came out of LinkedIn. A lot of the PMCs for the Apache Pinot project work at StarTree. It is also used at Uber, Stripe, DoorDash, Just Eat Takeaway (GrubHub), and a lot of other organizations.

Apache Pinot is known for its ability to provide high concurrency — hundreds of thousands of QPS — against petabytes of data. It uses the star-tree index to provide really fast responses measured in milliseconds.

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But then you realize there are other databases out there focused specifically on analytical use cases with lots of data and complex queries. Newcomers like ClickHouse, Pinot, and Druid (all open source) respond to a new class of problem: The need to develop applications using endpoints published on analytical queries that were previously confined only to the data warehouse and BI tools.

Recently, we have been surveying some streaming database solutions and the primary target is Apache Pinot, which fits our needs from the description and is therefore the primary target.

There are many mainstream streaming databases, and Apache Pinot is the most popular one recently.

Apache Pinot

Every time I buy a new computer, the first thing I install is the servers for MySql and Postgres, the two most common databases. This way, I can start the databases with a simple command like this:

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PostgreSQL

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Node.js, MySQL and PostgreSQL servers installed on your machine

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