Broker Query API

REST API on the Broker

Pinot can be queried via a broker endpoint as follows. This example assumes broker is running on localhost:8099

Standard-SQL endpoint

The Pinot REST API can be accessed by invoking POST operation with a JSON body containing the parameter sql to the /query/sql endpoint on a broker.

When TLS/SSL is not enabled:

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
   -d '{"sql":"select foo, count(*) from myTable group by foo limit 100"}' \
   http://localhost:8099/query/sql

When TLS/SSL is enabled:

$ curl -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
   -d '{"sql":"select foo, count(*) from myTable group by foo limit 100"}' \
   https://localhost:8099/query/sql

If the SQL statement contains ", in the JSON body, it needs to be replaced by '"'"', for example:

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
   -d '{"sql":"select foo, count(*) from myTable where foo='"'"'abc'"'"' limit 100"}' \
   http://localhost:8099/query/sql

PQL endpoint

Query Console

Query Console can be used for running ad hoc queries (checkbox available to query the PQL endpoint). The Query Console can be accessed by entering the <controller host>:<controller port> in your browser

pinot-admin

You can also query using the pinot-admin scripts. Make sure you follow instructions in Getting Pinot to get Pinot locally, and then

cd incubator-pinot/pinot-tools/target/pinot-tools-pkg 
bin/pinot-admin.sh PostQuery \
  -queryType sql \
  -brokerPort 8000 \
  -query "select count(*) from baseballStats"
2020/03/04 12:46:33.459 INFO [PostQueryCommand] [main] Executing command: PostQuery -brokerHost localhost -brokerPort 8000 -queryType sql -query select count(*) from baseballStats
2020/03/04 12:46:33.854 INFO [PostQueryCommand] [main] Result: {"resultTable":{"dataSchema":{"columnDataTypes":["LONG"],"columnNames":["count(*)"]},"rows":[[97889]]},"exceptions":[],"numServersQueried":1,"numServersResponded":1,"numSegmentsQueried":1,"numSegmentsProcessed":1,"numSegmentsMatched":1,"numConsumingSegmentsQueried":0,"numDocsScanned":97889,"numEntriesScannedInFilter":0,"numEntriesScannedPostFilter":0,"numGroupsLimitReached":false,"totalDocs":97889,"timeUsedMs":185,"segmentStatistics":[],"traceInfo":{},"minConsumingFreshnessTimeMs":0}