# Basics - [Concepts](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/concepts.md): Learn about the various components of Pinot and terminologies used to describe data stored in Pinot - [Architecture](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/architecture.md): This page covers everything you need to know about how queries are computed in Pinot's distributed systems architecture. - [Components](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/components.md): Learn about the different components and logical abstractions - [Cluster](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/components/cluster.md) - [Controller](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/components/controller.md) - [Broker](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/components/broker.md) - [Server](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/components/server.md) - [Minion](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/components/minion.md) - [Tenant](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/components/tenant.md) - [Schema](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/components/schema.md) - [Table](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/components/table.md) - [Segment](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/components/segment.md) - [Deep Store](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/components/deep-store.md): Learn about the deep store that stores a compressed copy of segment files in Pinot. - [Pinot Data Explorer](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/components/exploring-pinot.md): Explore the data on our Pinot cluster - [Getting Started](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started.md): This section contains quick start guides to help you get up and running with Pinot. - [Running Pinot locally](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/running-pinot-locally.md): This quick start guide will help you bootstrap a Pinot standalone instance on your local machine. - [Running Pinot in Docker](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/running-pinot-in-docker.md): This guide will show you to run a Pinot Cluster using Docker. - [Quick Start Examples](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/quick-start.md): This section describes quick start commands that launch all Pinot components in a single process. - [Running in Kubernetes](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/kubernetes-quickstart.md): Pinot quick start in Kubernetes - [Running on public clouds](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/public-cloud-examples.md): This page contains multiple quick start guides for deploying Pinot to a public cloud provider. - [Running on Azure](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/public-cloud-examples/azure-quickstart.md): This starter guide provides a quick start for running Pinot on Microsoft Azure - [Running on GCP](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/public-cloud-examples/gcp-quickstart.md): This starter provides a quick start for running Pinot on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - [Running on AWS](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/public-cloud-examples/aws-quickstart.md): This guide provides a quick start for running Pinot on Amazon Web Services (AWS). - [Batch import example](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/pushing-your-data-to-pinot.md): Step-by-step guide on pushing your own data into the Pinot cluster - [Stream ingestion example](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/pushing-your-streaming-data-to-pinot.md): The Docker instructions on this page are still WIP - [HDFS as Deep Storage](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/hdfs-as-deepstorage.md): This guide helps to setup HDFS as deepstorage for Pinot Segment. - [Troubleshooting Pinot](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/troubleshooting-pinot.md) - [Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/frequent-questions.md): This page has a collection of frequently asked questions with answers from the community. - [General](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/frequent-questions/genaral.md): FAQ for general questions around Pinot - [Pinot On Kubernetes FAQ](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/frequent-questions/pinot-on-kubernetes-faq.md) - [Ingestion FAQ](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/frequent-questions/ingestion-faq.md) - [Query FAQ](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/frequent-questions/query-faq.md) - [Operations FAQ](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/getting-started/frequent-questions/operations-faq.md) - [Import Data](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import.md): This section is an overview of the various options for importing data into Pinot. - [Batch Ingestion](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/batch-ingestion.md) - [Spark](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/batch-ingestion/spark.md) - [Hadoop](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/batch-ingestion/hadoop.md) - [Backfill Data](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/batch-ingestion/backfill-data.md) - [Dimension Table](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/batch-ingestion/dim-table.md): Dimension tables in Apache Pinot. - [Stream ingestion](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/pinot-stream-ingestion.md) - [Apache Kafka](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/pinot-stream-ingestion/import-from-apache-kafka.md): This guide shows you how to ingest a stream of records from an Apache Kafka topic into a Pinot table. - [Amazon Kinesis](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/pinot-stream-ingestion/amazon-kinesis.md) - [Apache Pulsar](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/pinot-stream-ingestion/apache-pulsar.md) - [Stream Ingestion with Upsert](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/upsert.md): Upsert support in Apache Pinot. - [File Systems](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/pinot-file-system.md): This section contains a collection of short guides to show you how to import from a Pinot supported file system. - [Amazon S3](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/pinot-file-system/amazon-s3.md) - [Azure Data Lake Storage](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/pinot-file-system/import-from-adls-azure.md): This guide shows you how to import data from files stored in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) - [HDFS](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/pinot-file-system/import-from-hdfs.md): This guide shows you how to import data from HDFS. - [Google Cloud Storage](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/pinot-file-system/import-from-gcp.md): This guide shows you how to import data from GCP (Google Cloud Platform). - [Input formats](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/pinot-input-formats.md): This section contains a collection of guides that will show you how to import data from a Pinot supported input format. - [Complex Type (Array, Map) Handling](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/data-import/complex-type.md): Complex-type handling in Apache Pinot. - [Indexing](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/indexing.md): This page describes the different indexing techniques available in Pinot - [Forward Index](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/indexing/forward-index.md) - [Inverted Index](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/indexing/inverted-index.md) - [Star-Tree Index](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/indexing/star-tree-index.md) - [Bloom Filter](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/indexing/bloom-filter.md) - [Range Index](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/indexing/range-index.md) - [Text search support](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/indexing/text-search-support.md): This page talks about support for text search functionality in Pinot. - [JSON Index](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/indexing/json-index.md) - [Geospatial](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/indexing/geospatial-support.md): This page talks about geospatial support in Pinot. - [Timestamp Index](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/indexing/timestamp-index.md): Speed up your time query with different granularities - [Releases](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases.md): The following summarizes Pinot's releases, from the latest one to the earliest one. - [0.10.0](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases/0.10.0.md) - [0.9.3](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases/0.9.3.md) - [0.9.2](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases/0.9.2.md) - [0.9.1](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases/0.9.1.md) - [0.9.0](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases/0.9.0.md) - [0.8.0](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases/0.8.0.md): This release introduced several new features, including compatibility tests, enhanced complex type and Json support, partial upsert support, and new stream ingestion plugins. - [0.7.1](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases/0.7.1.md): This release introduced several awesome new features, including JSON index, lookup-based join support, geospatial support, TLS support for pinot connections, and various performance optimizations. - [0.6.0](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases/0.6.0.md): This release introduced some excellent new features, including upsert, tiered storage, pinot-spark-connector, support of having clause, more validations on table config and schema, support of ordinals - [0.5.0](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases/0.5.0.md): This release includes many new features on Pinot ingestion and connectors, query capability and a revamped controller UI. - [0.4.0](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases/0.4.0.md): 0.4.0 release introduced the theta-sketch based distinct count function, an S3 filesystem plugin, a unified star-tree index implementation, migration from TimeFieldSpec to DateTimeFieldSpec, etc. - [0.3.0](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases/0.3.0.md): 0.3.0 release of Apache Pinot introduces the concept of plugins that makes it easy to extend and integrate with other systems. - [0.2.0](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases/0.2.0.md): The 0.2.0 release is the first release after the initial one and includes several improvements, reported following. - [0.1.0](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/releases/1.0.md): The 0.1.0 is first release of Pinot as an Apache project - [Recipes](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/recipes.md): Here you will find a collection of ready-made sample applications and examples for real-world data - [GitHub Events Stream](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.10.0/basics/recipes/github-events-stream.md): Steps for setting up a Pinot cluster and a realtime table which consumes from the GitHub events stream. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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