id: pinot-architecture title: Pinot Architecture sidebar_label: Pinot Architecture

Arch

  • Terminology: First, a bit of naming notions. Pinot has has different components, and different ways of representing the data. In particular, data is represented by:

  • Table: A table is a logical abstraction to refer to a collection of related data. It consists of columns and rows (documents).

  • Segment: Data in table is divided into (horizontal) shards referred to as segments.