How The R&A Powers Real-Time Analytics for Global Sporting Events
“Druid provided the perfect balance of scalability and performance for the Open Championship’s real-time analytics needs.”
The Open Championship generates massive amounts of telemetry — from player scoring and shot tracking to crowd movement, weather, and logistics. Traditional data warehouses couldn’t meet the demands for real-time speed, scale, and flexibility under the pressure of a live, globally broadcast event.
The R&A needed a real-time analytics engine capable of delivering instant insights — without risking downtime or performance bottlenecks.
The R&A selected Apache Druid as the core of their real-time event data platform.
Druid’s ability to continuously ingest millions of records per minute while delivering subsecond query response times at scale made it ideal for The Open’s dynamic, data-rich environment. Integrated into a modern, cloud-based architecture, Druid powered operational dashboards, performance tracking tools, and broadcast analytics applications — all refreshed with live data.
Even as the tournament generated hundreds of millions of new records every few minutes, Druid maintained fast, flexible analytics without operational complexity.
With Apache Druid, The R&A shifted from batch-driven reporting to dynamic, real-time event intelligence:
Across operations and broadcast teams, Druid enabled faster decisions, better experiences, and higher resilience — helping The Open Championship deliver a world-class event.
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