Apache Pinot is described as 'Real-time distributed OLAP datastore, built to deliver scalable real-time analytics with low latency. It can ingest from batch data sources (such as Hadoop HDFS, Amazon S3, Azure ADLS, Google Cloud Storage) as well as stream data sources (such as Apache Kafka)' and is an app. There are seven alternatives to Apache Pinot for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted, Windows and Web-based apps. The best Apache Pinot alternative is DuckDB, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Apache Pinot are ClickHouse, StarRocks, PondPilot and Sybase IQ.