Apache Druid: Difference between revisions

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| operating system = [[Cross-platform]]

| programming language = [[Java (programming language)|Java]]

| genre = [[Column -oriented databasedata store]]

| license = [[GNU General Public License]] v2

| website = {{URL|http://druid.io/}}

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Druid is a [[Columnar_database|column-oriented]] [[open-source]] [[Distributed_database|distributed]] database[[data store]] written in [[Java_(programming_language)|Java]]. Druid is designed to quickly 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"], ''[[ datanami]]'', 08 November 2012</ref> This is sometimes referred to as [[Real-time_data|real-time data]].

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> It is designed to ingest [[Timeseries|time-series data]], chunking and compressing that data into column-based queryable segments.<ref name="monash">Monash, Curt. [http://www.dbms2.com/2012/06/16/metamarkets-druid-overview/ "Metamarkets Druid Overview"], ''[[DBMS2]]'', 16 June 2012</ref>

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== History ==

Druid was created by real-time analytics company [[http://metamarkets.com Metamarkets]] to use as a major part of its backend. The company open-sourced Druid in late 2012.<ref name=gigaom">Higginbotham, Stacey. [http://gigaom.com/2012/10/24/metamarkets-open-sources-druid-its-in-memory-database/ "Metamarkets open sources Druid, its in-memory database"], ''[[GigaOM]]'', 24 October 2012</ref>