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 build the distribution from source or download a packaged release.

Build from source or download the distribution

Setting up a Pinot cluster

We'll be using the quick-start scripts provided along with pinot distribution, which do the following:

1. Set up the Pinot cluster QuickStartCluster

2. Create a sample table and load sample data

The following quick start scripts are available. Please note though, these scripts launch the Pinot cluster with minimal resources. If you intend to play with sizable data (more than few MB), you may want to follow the and provide required resources.

Batch

Batch quick start creates the pinot cluster, creates an offline table baseballStats and pushes sample offline data to the table.

That's it! We've spun up a Pinot cluster. You can continue playing with other types of quick start, or simply head on to to check out the data in the baseballStats table.

Streaming

Streaming quick start sets up a Kafka cluster and pushes sample data to a Kafka topic. Then, it creates the Pinot cluster and creates a realtime table meetupRSVP which ingests data from the Kafka topic.

We now have a Pinot cluster with a realtime table! You can head over to to check out the data in the meetupRSVP table.

Hybrid

Hybrid quick start sets up a Kafka cluster and pushes sample data to a Kafka topic. Then, it creates the Pinot cluster and creates a hybrid table airlineStats . The realtime table ingests data from the Kafka topic. Lastly, sample data is pushed into the offline table.

Let's head over to to check out the data we pushed to the airlineStats table.