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    <p class="lead">Apache Druid is a real-time database to power modern analytics applications.</p>
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          <h5>Build fast, modern data analytics applications</h5>
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            Druid is designed for <a href='/use-cases'>workflows</a> where fast ad-hoc analytics, instant data visibility, or supporting high concurrency is important. As such, Druid is often used to power UIs where an interactive, consistent user experience is desired.
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          <h5>Easy integration with your existing data pipelines</h5>
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            Druid streams data from message buses such as <a href='http://kafka.apache.org/'>Kafka</a>, and <a href='https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/'>Amazon Kinesis</a>, and batch load files from data lakes such as <a href='https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/HdfsUserGuide.html'>HDFS</a>, and <a href='https://aws.amazon.com/s3/'>Amazon S3</a>. Druid supports most popular file formats for structured and semi-structured data.
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          <h5>Fast, consistent queries at high concurrency</h5>
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            Druid has been <a href='https://imply.io/post/performance-benchmark-druid-presto-hive'>benchmarked</a> to greatly outperform legacy solutions. Druid combines novel storage ideas, indexing structures, and both exact and approximate queries to return most results in under a second.
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          <h5>Broad applicability</h5>
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            Druid <a href='/use-cases'>unlocks new types of queries and workflows</a> for clickstream, APM, supply chain, network telemetry, digital marketing, risk/fraud, and many other types of data. Druid is purpose built for rapid, ad-hoc queries on both real-time and historical data.
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          <h5>Deploy in public, private, and hybrid clouds</h5>
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            Druid can be deployed in any *NIX environment on commodity hardware, both in the cloud and on premise. Deploying Druid is easy: scaling up and down is as simple as adding and removing Druid services.
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            Druid is proven in production at the <a href='/druid-powered'>world’s leading companies</a> at massive scale.
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            Learn about some of the <a href='faq'>most common questions about Druid</a>.
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          <h5>Quickstart</h5>
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            <a href="/docs/latest/tutorials/quickstart">Get started with Druid</a> in minutes. Load your own data and query it.
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            Get help from a <a href='/community/'>wide network of community members</a> about using Druid.
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