Analytical Data Storage at Pinterest
During StarRocks Summit 2025, Kapil Bajaj (Senior Engineering Manager, Pinterest) shared the evolution of analytical data storage at Pinterest and the path that led to adopting StarRocks. 👉 Watch the recording to learn how Pinterest uses StarRocks to power large-scale analytics, including: 📌 Storage Evolution — The journey through multiple analytical storage options before selecting StarRocks. 📌 Real-World Usage — How StarRocks supports Pinterest’s production analytics workloads and internal launches. 📌 Challenges & Contributions — Lessons learned, optimizations made, and future directions for analytical storage at Pinterest. About StarRocks Summit 2025: This was our first global summit, presented by CelerData — a one-day, free, virtual event that brought together thousands of engineers and practitioners from around the world. The day featured 25+ engineer-led sessions from teams at Coinbase, Intuit, Pinterest, Demandbase, TRM Labs, and more, all sharing real architectures, hard-earned lessons, and what worked in production across real-time analytics, the lakehouse, and AI. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timestamps 00:00 Intro & Agenda 00:22 Analytics at Pinterest — Product Metrics, Business Metrics, and Safety 01:50 Journey of Analytical Storage — HBase 03:49 Journey of Analytical Storage — Druid 06:18 When Druid Fell Short — Alternative Solutions Pinterest Explored: Presto, Pinot, Druid, StarRocks, ClickHouse, and Rockset 08:01 Journey of Analytical Storage — StarRocks: Why Pinterest Chose It and the Results — 50% Query Speedup, 77% Cost Reduction, and 10× Improvement Over Druid in Certain Use Cases 09:18 Integration into Pinterest 10:24 Pinalytics — Pinterest’s Data Analytics Dashboard 11:39 Ratio Metrics — On-the-Fly Metric Computations 13:05 Future Migrations 15:03 Team Contributions 15:50 StarRocks Learnings 17:23 Q&A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn more at https://celerdata.com/ Connect with us: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/celerdata/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/celerdata CelerData Website: https://celerdata.com/ StarRocks GitHub: https://github.com/StarRocks/StarRocks StarRocks Website: https://www.starrocks.io/ Slack: https://starrocks.io/redirecting-to-slack #DataAnalytics #DataEngineering #RealTimeAnalytics #StarRocksSummit2025 #RealTimeData #OLAP #DataAnalyst #DataEngineer #DataInfrastructure #userfacinganalytics #Database #AnalyticalDatabase #AI #AgenticAnalytics #ApacheDruid