Concepts
Explore the fundamental concepts of Apache Pinot™ as a distributed OLAP database.
Apache Pinot™ is a database designed to deliver highly concurrent, ultra-low-latency queries on large datasets through a set of common data model abstractions. Delivering on these goals requires several foundational architectural commitments, including:
Storing data in columnar form to support high-performance scanning
Sharding of data to scale both storage and computation
A distributed architecture designed to scale capacity linearly
A tabular data model read by SQL queries
To learn about Pinot components, terminology, and gain a conceptual understanding of how data is stored in Pinot, review the following sections: