{"slug": "pivot-real-time-analytics-on-iceberg-faster-than-clickhouse-on-benchmarks", "title": "Pivot – Real-time analytics on Iceberg, faster than ClickHouse on benchmarks", "summary": "Pivot, an open-source real-time analytics engine written in Rust, launched with benchmarks claiming faster performance than ClickHouse while querying data stored in Delta Lake and Iceberg formats without replication. Pivot uses morsel-driven parallelism, SIMD, NUMA-aware execution, and cache-conscious aggregation and joins, and can run as a server or as a local engine for ad-hoc and agentic analytics. The project is in early development and not yet production ready, with breaking changes expected between releases, and is licensed under Apache 2.0 or MIT.", "body_md": "Pivot is a high-performance analytics engine that runs on open data formats. It delivers low-latency queries and high concurrency without replicating data into a dedicated real-time analytics database such as ClickHouse / Druid.\n\n- **Fast** - Written in Rust and built on state-of-the-art columnar execution techniques, including morsel-driven parallelism, SIMD, NUMA-aware execution, and cache-conscious aggregation and joins, in addition to a few novel additions.\n- **Scalable** - With object storage as its backing store, Pivot can be scaled up, down, or to zero almost instantly.\n- **Portable** -     Pivot can run both as a server serving backends and clients, or as a local engine where users and agents query the source of truth directly—allowing local ad-hoc and agentic analytics to share the same engine and architecture as traditional dashboards and in-app analytics\n- **Open** - Pivot is open source and built on open data formats (Delta Lake and Iceberg). This means you can use Pivot with data already stored in your data warehouse, while data ingested by Pivot remains accessible to other query engines.\n\n```\ncurl https://pivotlake.io | sh\n```\n\nSee the [Quickstart](https://pivotlake.io/docs/quickstart/) for Docker, the\nDebian package and a first query.\n\nNote\n\nPivot is in early development and not yet production ready. Expect breaking changes between releases.\n\nContributions are welcome! See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/pivotlake/pivot/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md), and ask\nquestions in [Discussions](https://github.com/pivotlake/pivot/discussions).\n\nLicensed under either of the [Apache License, Version 2.0](https://github.com/pivotlake/pivot/blob/main/LICENSE-APACHE) or\nthe [MIT license](https://github.com/pivotlake/pivot/blob/main/LICENSE-MIT), at your option.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pivot-real-time-analytics-on-iceberg-faster-than-clickhouse-on-benchmarks", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/pivotlake/pivot", "published_at": "2026-10-08 12:28:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-08 12:47:56.386333+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Pivot", "ClickHouse", "Druid", "Delta Lake", "Iceberg", "Rust", "pivotlake.io"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pivot-real-time-analytics-on-iceberg-faster-than-clickhouse-on-benchmarks", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pivot-real-time-analytics-on-iceberg-faster-than-clickhouse-on-benchmarks.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pivot-real-time-analytics-on-iceberg-faster-than-clickhouse-on-benchmarks.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pivot-real-time-analytics-on-iceberg-faster-than-clickhouse-on-benchmarks.jsonld"}}