# Imply Reviews **Vendor:** Imply Data, Inc. **Category:** [Big Data Analytics Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data-analytics) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 4 ## About Imply Our real-time analytics database, built from Apache Druid, enables developers to build the next generation of analytics applications. With Imply, developers can build without constraints as our database lets them create interactive data experiences on streaming and batch data with limitless scale and at the best economics. Imply delivers the complete developer experience for Apache Druid. Founded by its original creators, Imply adds to the speed and scale of the database with committer-driven expertise, effortless operations, and cloud deployment to meet developers’ application requirements with ease. Backed by leading investors including Thoma Bravo, a16z and Bessemer Venture Partners, Imply is on a fast growth trajectory - disrupting the $100B database market - with customers including Twitter, Salesforce, Atlassian, Reddit, and Intercontinental Exchange. ## Imply Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **availability of dedicated solutions architects** for ongoing support during and after migration with Imply. (1 reviews) - Users value the **collaboration with dedicated solutions architects** for seamless migration and ongoing technical support. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Imply, benefiting from intuitive controls and dedicated support throughout their journey. (1 reviews) - Users value the **flexibility and cost savings** of Imply, benefiting from dedicated support and effective cluster management. (1 reviews) - Users value the **flexibility** of Imply, enabling efficient cluster management and significant cost savings on data projects. (1 reviews) - Implementation Ease (1 reviews) - Managed Services (1 reviews) - Performance (1 reviews) - Performance Evaluation (1 reviews) - Powerful BI (1 reviews) ## Imply Reviews ### 1. Imply Druid helped us build a fast performant event driven architecture **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Divya B. | Director of Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Imply?** We are using Imply's partially managed offering Hybrid where we have the freedom to control and monitor our clusters on our own AWS Infra with a control pane to effectively monitor and upscale/downscale the clusters. Apart from that we are doing computations on timeseries data , data model and features like rollup etc have allowed us to bring done our overall savings to build a batch DWH by 30%. We have dedicated solutions architects who helped us during migration and are available throught our engagement for any technical help. **What do you dislike about Imply?** There is nothing as to dislike about the offering and services. However, I would suggest them to comeup with different billing models so that more customers and adopt and use Imply Druid. **What problems is Imply solving and how is that benefiting you?** Imply is helping us build our ETL framework for batch workflows which is capturing events from Kafka and then doing certain aggregations and enrichments on top of that. This computed data is then utilized for dashboarding , advanced analaytics i.e. by Data Science team and also fed into certain data heuristic algos for driving customer relevance and serving ads on Paytm platform. ### 2. Great product!!! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yaniv H. | BI data analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Imply?** Realtime analytics, ease of Use and Integration **What do you dislike about Imply?** There is currently nothing specific that I dislike **What problems is Imply solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create dashboards quickly and quickly analyzed the data ### 3. Simplified version of Apache druid for realtime analytics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Imply?** It's a polished version of apache druid with rich features for real time metrics **What do you dislike about Imply?** Not an easy setup/infrastructure to onboard and setup **What problems is Imply solving and how is that benefiting you?** As business is growing it's important to get real time metrics to identify issues or usage trend. Implly does a fabulous job ### 4. Great Cloud Deployment tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishwas V. | Software engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Imply?** -Useful in managing service for AWS. -helps in visualizing large-scale activity streams . -helps in deploying nodes in a Virtual Private Cloud. -Allow using SQL queries to build your own applications. **What do you dislike about Imply?** I have been using this software for more than a year and i have not found any issue. One thing is that parallel processing can be optimized. **What problems is Imply solving and how is that benefiting you?** -using SQL queries to build your own applications. managing service for AWS. - [View Imply pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/imply/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+15%3A40%3A27+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a112e8c1-ce48-4753-9b26-4e6515b38e1a&secure%5Btoken%5D=ae1b7c14576a7fe2d16dda3c2f4570e29259922680f2ea5bb6afc7ba68a285f4&format=llm_user) ## Imply Features **Reports** - Reports Interface - Steps to Answer - Graphs and Charts - Score Cards - Dashboards **Data Preparation** - Connectors - Data Governance **Data Management** - Data Integration - Data Compression - Data Quality - Built-In Data Analytics - In-Database Machine Learning - Data Lake Analytics **Management ** - Data Schema - Query Language - ACID - Complaint - Data Replication **Query latency** - Lower query latency - Continuous queries **Data Modeling and Blending** - Data Querying - Data Filtering - Data Blending **Integration** - AI/ ML Integration - BI Tool Integration - Data lake Integration **Support ** - Text Search - Data Types - Languages - Operating Systems **Data latency** - Lower data latency - Data pipeline performance **Deployment** - On-Premise - Cloud **Security** - Database Locking - Access Control - Encryption - Authentication **Connectors** - Faster ingestion - Built-in connectors **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Performance ** - Scalability **Performance ** - Disaster Recovery - Data Concurrency - Workload Management - Advanced Indexing - Query Optimizer **Scale** - Linearly scalable database - Storage management **Agentic AI - Analytics Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Self Service ** - Calculated Fields - Data Column Filtering - Data Discovery - Search - Collaboration / Workflow - Automodeling **Security** - Data Governance - Data Security **Architecture** - Data security - Lockless architecture **Deployment & Integration - Analytics Platforms** - No-code Dashboard Builder - Report Scheduling and Automation - Embedded Analytics and White-labeling - Data Source Connectivity **Advanced Analytics** - Predictive Analytics - Data Visualization - Big Data Services **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Performance & Scalability - Analytics Platforms** - Large data handling and Query Speed - Concurrent User Support **Advanced Analytics & Modeling - Analytics Platforms** - Data Modeling and Governance - Notebook and Script Integration - Built-in Predictive and Statistical Models **Agentic AI Capabilities - Analytics Platforms** - Auto-generated Insights and Narratives - Natural Language Queries - Proactive KPI Monitoring and Alerts - AI Agents for Analytical Follow-ups **Personalized Intelligence - Analytics Platforms** - Behavioral Learning for Contextual Query Refinement - Role-based Insight Personalization - Conversational and Prompt-based Analytics **Building Reports** - Data Transformation - Data Modeling - WYSIWYG Report Design - Integration APIs **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Imply Alternatives - [Snowflake](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (687 reviews) - [Databricks](https://www.g2.com/products/databricks/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (740 reviews) - [Strategy One (formerly MicroStrategy ONE)](https://www.g2.com/products/strategy-one-formerly-microstrategy-one/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (529 reviews)