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    <h1>Apache<span style="vertical-align: super; font-size: 0.5em;">®</span> Druid</h1>
    <p class="lead">Druid is a high performance, real-time analytics database that delivers sub-second queries on streaming and batch data at scale and under load.</p>
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        Overview
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          <h5>Sub-second queries at any scale</h5>
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            Execute OLAP queries in milliseconds on high-cardinality and high-dimensional data sets with billions to trillions of rows without pre-defining or caching queries in advance.
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          <h5>High concurrency at the lowest cost </h5>
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            Build real-time analytics applications that supports 100s to 100,000s queries per second at consistent performance with a highly efficient architecture that uses less infrastructure than other databases.
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          <h5>Real-time and historical insights</h5>
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            Unlock streaming data potential through Druid's native integration with Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis as it supports query-on-arrival at millions of events per second, low latency ingestion, and guaranteed consistency.
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        Key Druid Features
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                  <p>Druid utilizes scatter/gather for high speed queries with data preloaded into memory or local storage to avoid data movement and network latency</p>
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                  <p>Configurable tiering with quality of service enables the ideal price-performance for mixed workloads, guarantees priority, and avoids resource contention</p>
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                  <p>Ingested data is automatically columnarized, time indexed, dictionary encoded, bitmap indexed, and type-aware compressed</p>
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                  <p>Loosely coupled components for ingestion, queries and orchestration combined with a deep storage layer enable easy & quick scale-up & scale-out</p>
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                  <p>A connector-free integration with streaming platforms enables query-on-arrival, high scalability, low latency, and guaranteed consistency</p>
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                  <p>Automatic data services including continuous backup, automated recovery, and multi-node replication ensure high availability and durability</p>
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        Learn more
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          <h5>Powered By</h5>
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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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            <a href="/docs/latest/tutorials/quickstart">Get started with Druid</a> in minutes. Load your own data and query it.
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          <h5>Get Help</h5>
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            Get help from a <a href='/community/'>wide network of community members</a> about using Druid.
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            Hear from the Druid community on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tales-at-scale/id1655951714">Apple</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6KAKYLJvCVegsFfKvbfDnt">Spotify</a>, and <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5saWJzeW4uY29tLzQ0ODE3OS9yc3M">Google</a>.
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