Apache Druid Basics
Welcome to the fundamental course on Apache Druid from Imply!
This course brings together critical learning materials that we think are important to your first half hour with Apache Druid. For a short course it's full of information you need to experience and understand Druid.
If you'd like to talk to through what you learn in this course, why not say hi to Imply's DevRel team! Follow this link to find the bookable sessions on offer.
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Get started with Druid
The official Apache Druid documentation Quick Start guide helps you through downloading the latest Apache Druid release and getting it up and running. If you have time, running Apache Druid on your laptop is a great first step.
- Open the Local quickstart in the Apache Druid docs.
- Check that you have the prerequisite hardware and software.
- Follow the instructions to Druid it on your own machine!
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Druid use cases
The team behind Druid open sourced the project in 2012. Druid graduated to a top-level Apache Project in 2019. It's been a massive hit among teams who want to reduce latency of event data being delivered to their users, and to support more flexible, ad-hoc querying by their users.
The official Druid website contains an overview of how this real-time analytics database supports multiple use cases including user activity, network flows, digital marketing, and application performance management.
See the Imply website for even more uses for Druid.
For a sample of the companies using Apache Druid, take a look at the Powered By page. You can also watch videos from Apache Druid users at Druid Summit 2023, 2022, and 2021 There you'll find technolgists from Confluent, Reddit, Shopify, PayPal, Rakuten, and Netflix, to name a few.