Use cases

Use cases #

Pizza is built for latency-sensitive search over fresh, mutable data at scale. The scenarios below map to concrete features — follow the links for the mechanics.

Operational logs and events, searchable the moment they land #

Observability and security pipelines need indexed events and fresh results — “what happened in the last minute” cannot wait for a refresh window. Pizza’s realtime write path makes every acknowledged write searchable immediately, rollings absorb unbounded growth without reindexing, and high-volume ingest is served by batched WAL writes plus background segment builds that never gate reads.