Apache Pinot is a real-time analytics platform designed for user-facing applications. It provides excellent query performance on large, mutable datasets by using columnar storage and optimized indexing. Pinot handles real-time data ingestion from streaming and batch sources while supporting updates, deletes, and semi-structured data. It also offers a hybrid architecture that separates compute from storage for cost efficiency and scales from gigabytes to petabytes of data. Pinot aims to provide a full SQL interface and one platform for building various real-time analytics use cases with low latency and strong data consistency.