Bringing Apache Pinot’s Query Efficiency to the Data Lake

Learn how Apache Pinot brings query efficiency to modern data lakes by dramatically reducing unnecessary reads from Iceberg and Delta Lake. Traditional query engines rely on brute-force scans that become increasingly expensive as data grows. Apache Pinot takes a different approach, using indexes and intelligent query execution to read only the data needed—delivering sub-second analytics while lowering infrastructure costs. In this technical webinar, StarTree's Uday Vallamsetty and Chinmay Soman explain how Apache Pinot extends query efficiency to open table formats like Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake, enabling real-time analytics without data duplication or scan-heavy workarounds. In this session you'll learn: • Why brute-force analytics drives up compute and storage costs • How Apache Pinot improves query efficiency for Iceberg and Delta Lake • How External Tables work • Apache Pinot architecture for data lake analytics • Real-world performance benchmarks • Best practices for serving customer-facing and operational analytics from your data lake LEARN MORE ► Learn about StarTree and Apache Pinot™: https://docs.startree.ai/ CONNECT Subscribe on YouTube: https://stree.ai/sub Community Slack: https://stree.ai/join-slack Twitter: https://twitter.com/startreedata Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startreedata GitHub: https://github.com/startreedata Site: https://startree.ai ABOUT STARTREE StarTree, powered by Apache Pinot™, is the platform for continuous insights at scale. StarTree turns raw data streams—like clickstreams, logs, vector embeddings, and sensor data—into real-time analytics. It powers customer-facing data products, agent-facing data products, and operational intelligence. Apache Pinot™ delivers real-time analytics by design, rather than extension—built from the ground up to ingest massive data streams with millisecond freshness, execute sub-second aggregations, and support tens of thousands of queries per second. Pinot achieves this while radically reducing infrastructure costs by scanning less data and extreme compression. StarTree was founded by the core software engineering team and inventors of Apache Pinot™, which currently powers hundreds of user-facing applications at companies across industries, including Uber, LinkedIn, Stripe, Target, 7Eleven, NuBank, Etsy, Walmart, Together AI, and more. #apachepinot #realtimeanalytics #startree #apacheiceberg #dataengineering