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name: Apache Pinot
menu: Connecting to Databases
route: /docs/databases/pinot
index: 9
version: 1
---

## Apache Pinot

The recommended connector library for Apache Pinot is [pinotdb](https://pypi.org/project/pinotdb/).

The expected connection string is formatted as follows:

```
pinot+http://controller:5436/query?server=http://controller:5983/``
```
