Apache Druid in 5 Minutes

Apache Druid is a real-time analytics database used by 1000s of companies like Netflix, Confluent, Salesforce, and Target. But what's the big deal? Why use Druid instead of a data warehouse - like Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift - or an operational database like PostgreSQL or MongoDB? What makes Druid special?

This quick 5 minute video answers these questions and will help you identify when it would make sense to use Druid and when it wouldn't make sense.

0:00 Introduction
0:14 Data warehouse use case
1:45 Apache Druid use case
3:32 Confluent using Apache Druid

[dariosbaffi]

Crystal clear. Only a person with that extreme reverse writing technique can provide that good explanation. Thanks!

[bhaskaraggarwal]

Awesome.. Conceptually clear..✨ Thank you!

[anantababa]

Can apache druid take streaming data from apache pulsar topic?

[hsbalive]

Can I run druid on windows? Can it be used as a big data warehouse and to be used with python?