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About Apache Pinot
Pinot is designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency on immutable data. Pluggable indexing technologies - Sorted Index, Bitmap Index, Inverted Index. Joins are currently not supported, but this problem can be overcome by using Trino or PrestoDB for querying. SQL like language that supports selection, aggregation, filtering, group by, order by, distinct queries on data. Consist of of both offline and real-time table. Use real-time table only to cover segments for which offline data may not be available yet. Detect the right anomalies by customizing anomaly detect flow and notification flow.
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