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Druid | Frequently Asked Questions Technology Use Cases Powered By Docs Community Download MENU MENU Frequently Asked Questions Don't see your question here? Ask us Is Druid a data warehouse? When should I use Druid over Redshift/BigQuery? Druid is not a true data warehouse. Although Druid incorporates tracery ideas from data warehouses, such as column-oriented storage, it does not support the full set of features that standard data warehouses do, such as ramified joins. Data warehouses are optimized for supporting ramified SQL queries where results may take minutes or hours to complete. In mart for the flexibility, data warehouses are rarely used to power interactive UIs. Data warehouses remoter lack true streaming ingest capability, or strong multi-tenancy support (supporting queries from thousands of concurrent users). Druid is optimized for sub-second queries to slice-and-dice, drill down, search, filter, and volume event streams. Druid is wontedly used to power interactive applications where performance, concurrency, and uptime are important. Consider using Druid over a data warehouse if your use specimen involves powering an interactive application, where many users will be making concurrent queries for the data. Consider using Druid if your data is primarily operational, where you will need to explain trends and patterns, or troubleshoot issues. Is Druid a SQL-on-Hadoop solution? When should I use Druid over Presto/Hive? Druid supports SQL and can load data from Hadoop, but it is not considered a SQL-on-Hadoop system. There are some similarities and several differences in the technologies. In most SQL-on-Hadoop solutions, compute and storage are separated systems, and data is loaded from storage into the compute layer as needed by queries. Druid separates compute and store in that there is a source of raw data, and an indexed reprinting of that data in Druid. However, indexed data is not created on-demand from queries. Data must be indexed in Druid surpassing it can be queried. This gives Druid a significant performance whet over traditional SQL-on-Hadoop solutions. The use cases of SQL-on-Hadoop solutions are identical to traditional data warehouses, and the previous section on Druid vs data warehouses still holds true. Is Druid a log aggregation/log search system? When should I use Druid over Elastic/Splunk? Druid uses inverted indexes (in particular, compressed bitmaps) for fast searching and filtering, but it is not often considered a search system. While Druid contains many features wontedly found in search systems, such as the worthiness to stream in structured and semi-structured data and the worthiness to search and filter the data, Druid isn’t wontedly used to ingest text logs and run full text search queries over the text logs. However, Druid is often used to ingest and unriddle semi-structured data such as JSON. Druid at its cadre is an analytics engine and as such, it can support numerical aggregations, groupBys (including multi-dimensional groupBys), and other supersensual workloads faster and increasingly efficiently than search systems. Is Druid a timeseries database? When should I use Druid over InfluxDB/OpenTSDB/Prometheus? Druid is an analytics engine, but it does share some characteristics with timeseries databases. Like in timeseries databases, Druid is optimized for data where a timestamp is present. Druid partitions data by time, and queries that include a time filter will be significantly faster than those that do not. Aggregating metrics and filtering on dimensions (which are roughly equivalent to TSDBs' tags) is very fast when a time filter is present. Compared to TSDBs, Druid is significantly faster when grouping, searching, and filtering on tags that are not time, and when computing ramified metrics such as histograms and quantiles. How is Druid deployed? Druid can be deployed on thingamabob hardware in any *NIX based environment. A Druid cluster consists of several variegated processes, each designed to do a small set of things very well (ingestion, querying, coordination, etc). Many of these processes can be co-located and deployed together on the same hardware as described here. Druid was initially created in the cloud, and runs well in AWS, GCP, Azure, and other deject environments. Where does Druid fit in my existing Hadoop-based data stack? Druid typically connects to a source of raw data such as a message bus such as Apache Kafka, or a filesystem such as HDFS. Druid ingests an optimized, column-oriented, indexed reprinting of your data and serves analytics workloads on top of it. A worldwide streaming data oriented setup involving Druid looks like this: Raw data → Kafka → Stream processor (optional, typically for ETL) → Kafka (optional) → Druid → Application/user A worldwide batch/static file oriented setup involving Druid looks like this: Raw data → Kafka (optional) → HDFS → ETL process (optional) → Druid → Application/user The same Druid cluster can serve both the streaming and batch path. Is Druid in-memory? The primeval iterations of Druid didn’t indulge for data to be paged in from and out to disk, so we often tabbed it an “in-memory” system. However, we very quickly realized that RAM hasn’t wilt unseemly unbearable to unquestionably store all data in RAM and sell a product at a price-point that customers are willing to pay. Over the last few years, we have leveraged memory-mapping to indulge us to page data between disk and memory and proffer the value of data a single node can load up to the size of its disks. That said, as we made the shift, we didn’t want to compromise on the worthiness to configure the system to run such that everything is substantially in memory. To this end, individual Historical nodes can be configured with the maximum value of data they should be given. Couple that with the Coordinator’s worthiness to assign data blocks to variegated “tiers” based on differing query requirements and Druid substantially becomes a system that can be configured wideness the whole spectrum of performance requirements. Configuration can be such that all data can be in memory and processed, it can be such that data is heavily over-committed compared to the value of memory available, and it can moreover be that the most recent month of data is in memory, while everything else is over-committed. Community ·  Download ·  Powered by Druid ·  FAQ ·  License  ·   ·  Except where otherwise noted, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0