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Life & fun · October 8, 2026

Pivot – fast analytics on Iceberg, 2x+ faster than ClickHouse / DuckDB

Pivot – fast analytics on Iceberg, 2x+ faster than ClickHouse / DuckDB launched on October 8, 2026 with 16 votes, #538 of 3,178 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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Pivot is an analytics engine designed to query open data formats like Iceberg and Delta Lake with high speed and concurrency. It runs directly on data stored in object storage without requiring users to copy data into separate systems. The tool can be deployed as a shared server or locally, scales elastically including down to zero, and supports both interactive queries and AI agent access to the same underlying tables.

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Pivot brings the speed and concurrency the AI era demands to open data formats. Run low-latency, high-concurrency queries on external Iceberg, or Pivot's managed Delta Lake - without duplicating your data into proprietary real-time analytics engines. Benchmark harness and queries are in the repo — reproduce them yourself . With object storage as its backing store and only state, Pivot can be scaled up, down, or to zero almost instantly. Run Pivot as a shared server or locally for ad hoc queries and AI agents. Both access the same tables in object storage, with no extra copies to maintain. Connect applications, BI tools, and SQL clients to a shared Pivot server or cluster using the Postgres…from pivotlake.io

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