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# Druid Reviews
**Vendor:** Druid  
**Category:** [Time Series Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/time-series-databases)  
**Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 31
## About Druid
Apache Druid is an open source real-time analytics database. Druid combines ideas from OLAP/analytic databases, timeseries databases, and search systems to create a complete real-time analytics solution for real-time data. It includes stream and batch ingestion, column-oriented storage, time-optimized partitioning, native OLAP and search indexing, SQL and REST support, flexible schemas; all with true horizontal scalability on a shared nothing, cloud native architecture that makes it easy to deploy, monitor and manage at scale. It is downloadable for free for unlimited use from druid.apache.org and also hosted in the cloud by Imply Data.





## Druid Discussions
  - [Is it good to use Druid (for a small dataset) as an in-memory database ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/35785-is-it-good-to-use-druid-for-a-small-dataset-as-an-in-memory-database) - 1 comment, 1 upvote

- [View Druid pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/druid/reviews?page=2&section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-08+02%3A28%3A15+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8d3b1407-f5b8-4b8d-9e8b-4a9d19d14b78&secure%5Btoken%5D=86c827ac462fc815d271b082b3512cb6005ba6b91a7c6cd1f765ca9d8ad29342&format=llm_user)

## Druid Features
**Data Management**
- Data Integration
- Data Compression
- Data Quality
- Built-In Data Analytics
- In-Database Machine Learning
- Data Lake Analytics

**Management **
- Data Schema
- Query Language
- ACID - Complaint
- Data Replication

**Storage**
- Data Model
- Data Types

**Query latency**
- Lower query latency
- Continuous queries

**Database**
- Real-Time Data Collection
- Data Distribution
- Data Lake

**Integration**
- AI/ ML Integration
- BI Tool Integration
- Data lake Integration

**Support **
- Text Search
- Data Types
- Languages
- Operating Systems

**Availability**
- Auto Sharding
- Auto Recovery
- Data Replication

**Data latency**
- Lower data latency
- Data pipeline performance

**Integrations**
- Hadoop Integration
- Spark Integration

**Deployment**
- On-Premise
- Cloud

**Security**
- Database Locking
- Access Control
- Encryption
- Authentication

**Performance**
- Integrated Cache

**Connectors**
- Faster ingestion
- Built-in connectors

**Platform**
- Machine Scaling
- Data Preparation
- Spark Integration

**Performance **
- Scalability

**Performance **
- Disaster Recovery
- Data Concurrency
- Workload Management
- Advanced Indexing
- Query Optimizer

**Security**
- Role-Based Authorization
- Authentication
- Audit Logs
- Encryption

**Scale**
- Linearly scalable database
- Storage management

**Processing**
- Cloud Processing
- Workload Processing

**Security**
- Data Governance
- Data Security

**Support**
- Multi-Model
- Operating Systems

**Architecture**
- Data security
- Lockless architecture

**Generative AI**
- AI Text Generation
- AI Text Summarization

**Building Reports**
- Data Transformation
- Data Modeling
- WYSIWYG Report Design
- Integration APIs

**Database Features**
- Storage
- Availability
- Stability
- Scalability
- Security
- Data Manipulation
- Query Language

**Platform**
- Mobile User Support
- Customization 
- User, Role, and Access Management
- Internationalization
- Sandbox / Test Environments
- Performance and Reliability
- Breadth of Partner Applications

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