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Druid is a [[Columnar_database|column-oriented]] [[open-source]] [[Distributed_database|distributed]] database written in [[Java_(programming_language)|Java]]. Druid is designed to ingest massive quantities of [[Timeseries|time-series data]], making that data immediately available to queries.<ref name="datanami">Hemsoth, Nicole. [http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2012-11-08/druid_summons_strength_in_real-time.html]'' "Druid Summons Strength in Real-Time"], '', Nicole Hemsoth,[[ datanami]]'', November 08, November 2012</ref> This is sometimes referred to as [[Real-time_data|real-time data]] or [[Real-time_computing|real-time computing]].

On the developer Q&A site [http://stackoverflow.com Stackoverflow], Druid is described as "open-source infrastructure for real-time exploratory analytics on large datasets."<ref name="stackoverflow">[http://stackoverflow.com/tags?tab=name]Stackoverflow shorthand tag description.</ref>