Apache Pinot: Our Open Source is Built on Open Source

When building free open source software (FOSS) projects, maintainers can at times fall into the classic “not invented here (NIH)” syndrome.
For various reasons they may choose to write their infrastructure code from the ground up.
This can lead to reinvented wheels and present difficulties to keep the project maintained. Apache Pinot, on the other hand, is built on the foundations of multiple existing, already-successful open source projects.

From Apache Zookeeper and Apache Helix for cluster management, to Apache Calcite for the underlying SQL parser and optimization techniques, Apache Lucene for text indexing and querying, as well as others, discover the architectural choices of other open source projects that underpin Pinot.

About the speakers:

Peter Corless
Director of Product Marketing, StarTree
Peter Corless is the Director of Product Marketing at StarTree. Prior to that he was the Director of Technical Advocacy at ScyllaDB. In his long career in Silicon Valley he has also held various roles spanning from Aerospike to Cisco Systems.
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Gonzalo Ortiz
Software Engineer, StarTree
Gonzalo Ortiz is a seasoned software engineer, demonstrating expertise in developing high-performance Java code, particularly within the domain of databases. Passionate about designing, coding, and exploring cutting-edge concepts in efficiency, concurrency, and distributed systems, Gonzalo has been a dedicated Pinot contributor at StarTree since 2022.
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