Apache Pinot

Web · Self-hosted · API

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Two barsScore 6.5

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely1 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Apache Pinot is ranked #40 of 74 in database software on Freedom251, made by Apache Pinot (Wilmington, Delaware, United States). It runs on API, Self-hosted, Web. There is a free plan.

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Apache Pinot Free Open-source distributed OLAP datastore · self-hosted deployment pinot.apache.org · 1 Oct 2026

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Real-time ingestion: Yes

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Purpose: Apache Pinot is a real-time distributed OLAP datastore for low-latency, high-throughput analytics and user-facing workloads.
Open source: Apache Pinot is an open-source distributed OLAP database.
Query latency: Pinot advertises P90 query latencies in the tens of milliseconds on petabyte-scale data.
Concurrency: Pinot can serve hundreds of thousands of concurrent queries per second.
Streaming ingestion: Pinot ingests real-time data from Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, and AWS Kinesis.
Batch ingestion: Pinot supports batch ingestion from Hadoop, Spark, AWS S3, Azure ADLS, and Google Cloud Storage.
Unified tables: Pinot can combine batch and streaming sources into a single queryable table.
Query interface: Pinot provides a SQL query editor and a REST API.
Multitenancy: Pinot provides isolated logical namespaces for cloud-friendly resource management and data security.
BI integrations: The documentation lists Superset, Tableau, and Power BI as BI tools that can connect to Pinot.
Client libraries: Pinot provides JDBC, Java, Python, and Golang clients for external applications.
Authentication and authorization: Pinot supports HTTP Basic Authentication and ACLs for controller and broker access.
Transport security: Pinot supports TLS and mutual TLS for encrypted and authenticated connections.
Row-level security: Pinot 1.4.0 and later supports row-level security filters for per-user row visibility.
Price from: Free

Where it ranks on Freedom251

Best Database Software in 2026#40 of 74
Best OLAP Software in 2026#13 of 31
Best OLAP Databases in 2026#14 of 28
Best Columnar Databases in 2026#10 of 25
Best Streaming Analytics Software in 2026#10 of 25

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docs.pinot.apache.org· checked 1 Oct 2026
pinot.apache.org· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.pinot.apache.org/users/clients· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.pinot.apache.org/operate-pinot/security/authentication· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.pinot.apache.org/release-1.0.0/for-operators/tutorials/c· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.pinot.apache.org/operate-pinot/security/security-hardeni· checked 1 Oct 2026
pinot.apache.org/download· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.pinot.apache.org/community-1/community· checked 1 Oct 2026