Running Pinot locally

In this guide, you'll learn how to download and install Apache Pinot as a standalone instance.

Download Apache Pinot

First, let's download the Pinot distribution for this tutorial. You can either download a packaged release or build a distribution from the source code.

You can build from source or download the distribution:

M1 Mac Support

Currently Apache Pinot doesn't provide official binaries for M1 Mac. You can however build from source using the steps provided above. In addition to the steps, you will need to add the following in your ~/.m2/settings.xml prior to the build.

Now that we've downloaded Pinot, it's time to set up a cluster. There are two ways to do this:

Quick Start

Pinot comes with quick-start commands that launch instances of Pinot components in the same process and import pre-built datasets.

For example, the following quick-start launches Pinot with a baseball dataset pre-loaded:

For a list of all the available quick starts, see the .

Manual Cluster

If you want to play with bigger datasets (more than a few MB), you can launch all the components individually.

The video below is a step-by-step walk through for launching the individual components of Pinot and scaling them to multiple instances.

You can find the commands that are shown in this video in the GitHub repository.

Start Zookeeper

You can use to browse the Zookeeper instance.

Start Pinot Controller

Start Pinot Broker

Start Pinot Server

Start Kafka

Once your cluster is up and running, you can head over to to learn how to run queries against the data.