Geospatial data has been widely used across the industry, spanning multiple verticals, such as ride-sharing and delivery, transportation infrastructure, defense and intel, public health. Deriving insights from timely and accurate geospatial data could enable mission-critical use cases in the organizations and fuel a vibrant marketplace across the industry. …

Since the 0.6.0 release of Apache Pinot, a new feature was made available for stream ingestion that allows you to upsert events from an immutable log. Typically, upsert is a term used to describe inserting a record into a database if it does not already exist or update it if…

In this blog post, we’re going to explore an exciting new world of real-time analytics based on combining the popular CDC tool, Debezium, with the real-time OLAP datastore, Apache Pinot. Self-service analytics Self-service analytics is a term that I came up with to describe building analytics applications using CDC (change data capture)…

The history behind Russian disinformation is a dense and continuously evolving subject. The world’s best research hasn’t seemed to hit the mainstream yet, which made this an excellent opportunity to see if I could use some open source tooling to surface new analytical evidence. The premiere dataset available for researchers…

In this blog post, I’d like to show you how Apache Pinot can be used to easily ingest, query, and visualize millions of climate events sourced from the NOAA storm database. Bootstrap your climate dashboard I’ve created an open source example which will fully bootstrap a climate data dashboard with Apache Pinot as the…

Anomaly detection is a very broad term. Usually it means that you want to see if things are running as usual. This could go from your business metrics down to the lowest level of how your systems are running. Anomaly detection is an entire process. It’s not just a tool…

Once upon a time, an internet company named LinkedIn faced the challenge of having petabytes of connected data with no way to analyze it in real-time. As this was a problem that was the first of its kind, there was only one solution. The company put together a talented team…

If humanity could be caught thinking in real-time, what would it look like? Wikipedia is the closest thing we have to a globally interconnected brain — one that is packed full of knowledge from every corner of the globe — and is always in flux and rarely out of date. …

Pinot is the latest Apache incubated project to follow in the footsteps of other tremendously popular open source projects that were first built by engineers at LinkedIn. …