“Druid is really good at being able to group on various aggregates at query time at speed. It gave us the confidence to build interactive analytics for users.”

“The team at Imply are Druid experts and provide best practices on Druid and Imply cluster design. We have also partnered with Imply to deliver additional Pivot UI functionality including alerting users when data hits designated thresholds, email reporting, and UX improvements around slicing and dicing data.”

“Druid [has] a home in a number of areas in and around Yahoo, from executive-level dashboards to customer-facing analytics and even some analytically-powered products.”

“Instead of relying on slow and stale dashboards, we have been able to achieve both internal productivity gains and faster decision-making with Druid and Imply.”

“One of the reasons we chose Druid is for the active community—it’s open and transparent, and people can review and contribute to the technology."

“When Elasticsearch could no longer meet our requirements, we switched to Druid. The proof of concept was great in terms of scalability, concurrent queries, performance, and cost—so we went with Druid and never looked back.”

“Combining an approximate streaming algorithm (DataSketch) that supports set operations and a fast time-series datastore (Druid) can provide capabilities that previously could take hours.”

“We reduced our infrastructure costs by half and freed up 12 weekly engineering hours, more than covering the cost of Imply.”

“Just like individuals, Imply’s core values are critical to the success it achieves. Having well-defined values allows the company to transition from cultural fit to values fit, making space for the cultural adds who extend the fabric of the company’s unique DNA into the product and customer experience."

“Thanks to Apache Druid, we feel not only that we’ve caught up with our competitors–the likes of Adobe, Facebook, Snapchat, and Google–but we are poised to take it to the next level.”

“Why do I have to do all this work just to add another column, or to give a specific market the daily aggregate that they need? We’re paying a fortune for processing and for storage – why can’t we just have a simple, wide view of a table? There must …

“One of the big advantages of Druid has been the customizability that Druid offers; you can pretty much bend it to do anything. ”

“A surprising conclusion emerged. The best platform for scalability and customer usage was Imply.”

“We did a lot of database comparisons, and Druid achieved better query performance. Our team tested Druid and Trino and found Druid was ten times faster on average."

“By using Apache Druid and Imply, we can ingest multiple events straight from Kafka and our data lake, ensuring advertisers have the information they need for successful campaigns in real time.”