Use cases

Real time ingestion and fast query performance

Apache Druid is a database that is most often used for powering use cases where Scalable ingest, fast query performance, and high uptime are important. Druid is commonly used as the database for GUIs of analytical applications, or as a backend for highly concurrent APIs that need fast aggregations.

Common application areas for Druid include:

• Clickstream analytics (web and mobile analytics) Risk/fraud analysis

• Network telemetry analytics (network performance monitoring)

• Server metrics storage

• Supply chain analytics (manufacturing metrics)

• Application performance metrics

• Business intelligence / OLAP