1 Billion Row Challenge with Apache Pinot

a.k.a.. 1BRC

Gunnar’s 1 billion row challenge has gone viral, so I also wanted to take on the challenge. This is technically a Java challenge. Some of the benchmarks for the Java implementations tested so far are really good, but I wanted to use something off the shelf that supports SQL, can be secured, and has SaaS available. Also, since the goal is to aggregate a …