Apache Pinot is a blazingly fast analytics database that’s powering mission critical applications in Stripe, Doordash, Uber, Cisco, 7-11 and more. It was designed to support very high query throughput (think of 1000s or 100s of 1000s of queries per second) with sub-second query latency. It also supports real time upserts and deletes in real time which makes it an ideal fit for generating accurate insights. This brings us to the question - can you use Apache Pinot in lieu of an OLTP database such as MySQL or Postgres. The answer as you would imagine is - it depends. In this talk we will do a deep dive into what makes Pinot so fast. We’ll take a closer look at what use cases are a good fit for Pinot vs OLTP and also where it complements existing solutions. Finally, we’ll see this all in action with a small demo.