# Apache Druid
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Druid is a high performance, real-time analytics database that delivers sub-second queries on streaming and batch data at scale and under load. For more information on ingesting Kinesis data streams using Apache Druid, see [Amazon Kinesis ingestion](https://druid.apache.org/docs/latest/development/extensions-core/kinesis-ingestion.html).