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Alternatives to Druid

6 alternatives found

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Apache Druid is an open-source real-time OLAP database engineered for sub-second queries on event streams and time-series data at massive scale. Druid was created at MetaMarkets in 2011 and open-sourced in 2012 before being donated to the Apache Software Foundation in 2018.

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ClickHouse

Simpler columnar OLAP — easier to operate, faster for many batch analytical queries

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Apache Pinot

LinkedIn-born real-time OLAP — similar architecture to Druid, stronger upsert support

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BigQuery

Fully managed serverless DW — no infrastructure, but higher latency than Druid for real-time

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Redshift

AWS managed DW — better for batch reporting; Druid for interactive real-time dashboards

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Snowflake

Cloud DW for broad SQL workloads — Druid outperforms Snowflake on time-series and event queries

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Elasticsearch

Full-text search + analytics — Druid outperforms ES for pure aggregation workloads

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