G2

Shashank N.

Software Engineer III

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/11/2021

"Druid, Kafka and your favourite Dashboard"

4/5

What do you like best about Druid?

Druid is amazingly fast and has built-in connectors for most of the popular datasources. It supports a variety of dashboards which makes Druid a perfect choice for any Real Time Streaming Application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Druid?

Druid natively queries in JSON format which is hard to pick up for a SQL user. Rollover queries are not dynamic. Example - If you want to roll up for a specific time of one day to a specific time of another day, that might not be possible. Web GUI is also not so user-friendly for a business user. Missing operations friendly cluster manager console. Druid needs a dedicated server and cannot utilize existing Hadoop resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Druid:

Druid is a perfect database to power real-time analytic workloads for event-driven data. It is fast, has column-oriented storage, and is a time series database. It fits perfectly in any big data stack. Note - Druid might not be a good choice if you heavily depend on joins. It might slow down the performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Druid solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a database where we could persist our data from Kafka and could also do some rollup. It was also required that the database should be fast enough to do aggregations when displaying on the dashboard. Everything had to be in real-time. Druid was fast and capable enough to acknowledge all the requirements. Built-in connectors save much of the time and effort while integrating with other applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.