Pinot: Realtime OLAP for 530 Million Users

Summary: Pinot: realtime OLAP for 530M users. Production-grade single system from LinkedIn delivering near-realtime streaming ingestion, tens of thousands of analytical queries/sec, and nonstop operation, with a performance comparison to Druid. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5494
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 5.9364731e-05
Overall Rank: 4,767 | 66.84%
DOI: 10.1145/3183713.3190661

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,729	Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges	2019	VLDB	0.0001073728
3,152	AnalyticDB: Real-time OLAP Database System at Alibaba Cloud	2019	VLDB	7.4711766e-05
4,390	LogStore: A Cloud-Native and Multi-Tenant Log Database	2021	SIGMOD	6.2279149e-05
4,495	ClickHouse - Lightning Fast Analytics for Everyone	2024	VLDB	6.1410277e-05
4,688	Alibaba Hologres: A Cloud-Native Service for Hybrid Serving/Analytical Processing	2020	VLDB	5.9980609e-05
6,298	Hillview: A trillion-cell spreadsheet for big data	2019	VLDB	5.1226987e-05
7,492	Krypton: Real-time Serving and Analytical SQL Engine at ByteDance	2023	VLDB	4.7180617e-05
8,673	CoopStore: Optimizing Precomputed Summaries for Aggregation	2020	VLDB	4.4709116e-05
9,111	Meta's Next-generation Realtime Monitoring and Analytics Platform	2022	VLDB	4.3942367e-05
11,485	Real-time Data Infrastructure at Uber	2021	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
21	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00086087497
35	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00076197749
70	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00059533166
109	Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets	2010	VLDB	0.00048186983
131	Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems	2006	SIGMOD	0.0004370331
241	DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store	2013	VLDB	0.00031420034
310	The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later	2012	VLDB	0.00028132402
472	Bottom-Up Computation of Sparse and Iceberg CUBEs	1999	SIGMOD	0.00022346384
476	Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop	2015	CIDR	0.00022226941
597	Computing Iceberg Queries Efficiently	1998	VLDB	0.00019475592
1,470	Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click	2012	VLDB	0.00011833779
1,588	Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011239313
2,190	Star-Cubing: Computing Iceberg Cubes by Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration	2003	VLDB	9.3317645e-05
3,154	The MemSQL Query Optimizer: A modern optimizer for real-time analytics in a distributed database	2016	VLDB	7.4686089e-05
7,570	Avatara: OLAP for Web-scale Analytics Products	2012	VLDB	4.7077095e-05

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