# Apache Pinot

> Open-source distributed OLAP database for user-facing apps and AI agents. Provides sub-second queries on fresh streaming data with high concurrency.

- **Category:** Databases & storage
- **Licence:** Apache-2.0
- **Latest version:** release-1.5.1
- **Open source:** oss
- **Languages:** Java
- **Platforms:** Docker
- **Tags:** Data Engineering, Real-time Analytics, Batch Processing, Kubernetes, Java, Olap, Distributed Database, Helm chart, Stream processing, SQL Database

## Description

Apache Pinot provides real-time analytics at scale with sub-second query latencies. Built originally at LinkedIn for user-facing applications and autonomous AI systems, it ingests batch data from Hadoop, Spark, AWS S3 alongside streaming sources like Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis. The system offers SQL queries via built-in console or REST API, performs joins on large datasets, supports flexible indexing including inverted, StarTree, Bloom filter, range indexes, includes multitenancy, scales horizontally, and deploys on Kubernetes through Helm charts.

## Links

- [Homepage](https://github.com/apache/pinot)
- [Website](https://pinot.apache.org/)
- [Docker](apachepinot/pinot)
- [Documentation](https://docs.pinot.apache.org)
- [Community Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/apache-pinot/shared_invite/zt-5z7pav2f-yYtjZdVA~EDmrGkho87Vzw)

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