# Apache Pinot Reviews
**Vendor:** The Apache Software Foundation  
**Category:** [Real-time Analytic Database Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/real-time-analytic-database)  
**Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 2
## About Apache Pinot
Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency




## Apache Pinot Reviews
  ### 1. Realtime data from microservices to insights

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Davi Z. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2024

**What do you like best about Apache Pinot?**

With Apache Pinot (1.0.0) we can delivery huge amount of data with low latency, enabling fast time to insight to all data consumers. Below some great features that we use: 
1 - Multi-tenant ( we can split workloads and costs)
2- Cost per GB ingest are very low compared with other SaaS solutions
3 - Index we can turn on/off index based on users behaivor make querys faster
4 - Kafka integration is straightforward
5 - Simple and intuitive UI.

**What do you dislike about Apache Pinot?**

Using daily basis, a limitation that we cant ingest data directy from API. Converting from some complex schemas to pinot schema take time.

**What problems is Apache Pinot solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Apache Pinot bridges the gap between generated and consumed data, where previously it took hours to take seconds. It also resolved cases where the huge amount of data  that it was not possible to execute queries.

  ### 2. Best OLAP

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Rahul G. | Web Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2024

**What do you like best about Apache Pinot?**

I like its feature of analysing business data with a better approach and we can apply  it using Docker or Kubernetes which is really great.

**What do you dislike about Apache Pinot?**

I dislikes its documentation which is not so much fresher friendly.

**What problems is Apache Pinot solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Apache Pinot solves the problem of a dedicated analytics for the business which not only help in showcase the growth but also benefitting in finding where we are losing and this makes business more powerful.



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## Apache Pinot Features
**Query latency**
- Lower query latency
- Continuous queries

**Data latency**
- Lower data latency
- Data pipeline performance

**Connectors**
- Faster ingestion
- Built-in connectors

**Scale**
- Linearly scalable database
- Storage management

**Architecture**
- Data security
- Lockless architecture

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