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<h1>Apache Paimon</h1>
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Data Lake Platform — unified batch, streaming, and multimodal AI in a single lake format.
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<a href="concepts/">Concepts</a> · <a href="maintenance/configurations">Configurations</a> · <a href="project/download">Download</a>
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<div className="feature-column-title">📊 Large-Scale Analytics</div>
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    <h3>Append Table</h3>
    <p>Append-only tables, incremental clustering, and streaming append</p>
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    <h3>Spark</h3>
    <p>Quick start, SQL operations, DataFrames, structured streaming</p>
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    <h3>Maintenance</h3>
    <p>Snapshots, tags, metrics, compaction, and performance tuning</p>
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<div className="feature-column-title">⚡ Realtime Streaming</div>
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    <h3>PrimaryKey Table</h3>
    <p>Merge engines, changelog producers, compaction, and streaming updates</p>
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    <h3>Flink</h3>
    <p>Quick start, SQL DDL/DML, streaming read & write, procedures</p>
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    <h3>CDC Ingestion</h3>
    <p>MySQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka, MongoDB, Pulsar CDC pipelines</p>
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<div className="feature-column-title">🧠 Multimodal AI</div>
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    <h3>Multimodal Table</h3>
    <p>Data evolution, blob storage, vector storage, and global index</p>
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    <h3>PyPaimon & AI</h3>
    <p>Python SDK, Ray, PyTorch, Pandas integration for AI & multimodal workloads</p>
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    <h3>Ecosystem</h3>
    <p>StarRocks, Doris, Hive, Trino, Presto integrations</p>
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