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Pivot
Company blog · pivotlake.io/blogdataprogramming
Pivot is the company blog at pivotlake.io, writing about data and programming. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “It's the memory latency, stupid”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked product site describes Pivot, a real-time analytics database built on open data formats such as Iceberg. The comment compares it with ClickHouse and DuckDB and says the docs and landing page will be updated.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- It's the memory latency, stupid3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-29
- Show HN: Pivot – fast analytics on Iceberg, 2x+ faster than ClickHouse / DuckDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-05
What Hacker News says?
Hi! Will definitely add those to the docs and landing page — really appreciate the feedback! :) We originally built Pivot for our internal observability pipeline, where we streamed the same data into both ClickHouse (with 1 month TTL - for fast dashboards and customer-facing analytics on recent data) and Iceberg (for longer data archiving and ETL jobs). We were frustrated with this duplication (and with ClickHouse O…
Comment linking /docs/database/why-pivot-is-fast/
on “Show HN: Pivot – fast analytics on Iceberg, 2x+ faster than ClickHouse / DuckDB”Submitted It's the memory latency, stupid as a story · 253 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Pivot – fast analytics on Iceberg, 2x+ faster than ClickHouse / DuckDB as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pivot – Fast ClickHouse alternative on iceberg / deltalake, written in Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making GROUP BY faster by doing more (CPU) work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's the Memory Latency, Stupid as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does ClickHouse need its own storage format? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion