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Everything you love about Druid, plus so much more

With Imply, you get everything you need to deploy and scale Druid with confidence — a cloud-native service for streaming and batch data ingestion, frequent updates, visualization UI, built-in management, and performance monitoring software, along with 24/7 support and professional services for real-time analytics applications.

  • Analyze real-time and historical data with high concurrency at any scale

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    Sub-second queries at any scale: Druid’s unique distributed architecture and storage engine delivers consistent sub-second response times for simple to complex (i.e. aggregation, groupby) queries on trillions of rows.

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    Real-time and historical insights: Druid is built to ingest streaming and batch data. Native integration with Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis enables event-by-event ingestion, query-on-arrival, and guaranteed consistency, even when ingesting millions of events per second.

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    Higher concurrency, lower cost: Druid is designed with a highly-efficient engine that minimizes CPU cycles for queries to support high concurrency at 100s to 1000s of queries per second — at a fraction of the cost of other databases.

  • Imply

    Fast-track real-time analytics with a fully managed infrastructure

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    Peace of mind: Uptime, performance, security, and reliability are paramount for mission-critical analytics. Imply offers flexible cloud deployment options and world-class support to take the angst out of managing open-source software.

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    Simplified data operations: Opt for our cloud service that deploys instantly, scales effortlessly, and doesn’t require any Druid expertise. Or run Druid yourself anywhere with our commercial distribution. Either way, you'll get advanced management to streamline cluster operations.

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    Maximum cost savings: Imply’s flexible deployment options and Professional Services are designed to maximize database performance while minimizing costs, helping you lower TCO and accelerate time-to-value for real-time analytics.

Lower your Druid TCO by up to 50%

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Query speed
Imply has a proven track record of helping developers gain performance improvements, querying data sets 10 times faster*.
Minutes to start
Imply’s Druid-as-a-Service enables developers to start building their next analytics app in as little as five minutes.
Faster time-to-market
Imply delivers a pre-built UI so developers don’t spend months** building a custom UI for complex slice-and-dice analytical queries.
**Source: GameAnalytics
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Hybrid, Enterprise, Polaris

Elastic Cloud Native Infrastructure
Elastic scaling
Auto-adjust computing and storage resources to accommodate varying workloads, ensuring optimal performance and cost-efficiency.
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High Availability (HA)
Ensure continuous operation and minimize downtime through redundant system design.
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Disaster recovery
Provide mechanisms to recover data and operations quickly after catastrophic events.
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Fault tolerant
Avoid data loss by maintaining system functionality even when some components fail.
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Cluster self-healing
Auto-detect and repair failures to maintain stability as issues arise (e.g., DNS / ZK issues, resource usage, ingestion spikes).
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No downtime deployments
Imply has zero downtime updates, whereas OSS requires ~1K complex steps to ensure segments are always available for querying.
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Backups
Druid regularly copies data to secure storage and prevents data loss, but only Imply backs up cluster configuration.
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AZ aware deployment
Deploy replicas across multiple availability zones for maximum resilience.
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Committer-Led Support

SLA
Uphold uptime guarantees and support level commitments.
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24×7 Support
Access expertise from the original creators of Apache Druid.
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Professional services
Achieve your business outcomes with hands-on engagement.
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Nested JSON support
Ensure efficient handling and querying of data with complex, hierarchical structures
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Schema auto-discovery
Auto-detect and update data fields and types as data changes (partitioning, clustering available everywhere, strict tables).
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No/Low code based ingestion
Enable data ingestion through simple, user-friendly interfaces
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Data modelling capabilities
Leverage data governance tools to define, manage, and manipulate data structures for optimized querying.
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Upserts
Instantly upsert new or changed data when streaming from Kafka (no need to run a LATEST aggregation).
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Lookups
Enhance query flexibility by joining data streams: Imply supports single segment lookups (off-heap) and multiple key-value pairs.
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SQL-based ingestion
Seamless integration with familiar SQL language.
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Cloud IDE with auto-complete
Speed up coding with an integrated development environment.
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Dev/Stage/Prod environments
Seamlessly transition environments for workflow management.
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OpenAPI-powered API
Interactive end-to-end examples with extensive integration capabilities.
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Zero touch patching and upgrades
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No Zookeeper Management
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Cluster rebalancing
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Cloud Management UI
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Usage Analytics
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Maintenance & Upgrade Windows
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ANSI SQL support
Use familiar SQL language for seamless querying and development.
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Time series analysis
Simplify time-based analysis with interpolation and algebraic functions.
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High-precision geospatial filters
Leverage advanced filtering for spatial data analysis and geolocation tasks.
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Async query
Query deep storage for up to two years of data to compare trends against real-time data in a single system.
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Sessionization
Explore session-based data grouping to speed up ML model training for analysis of user behavior and patterns over time.
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Point & click exploration (at TB scale)
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Batch Sources
S3, GCS, Azure Blob Storage, HDFS, Iceberg, Deltalake, FileUpload
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Streaming Sources
Confluent, Kinesis, Kafka, Push API
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BI & Observability Tools
Grafana, Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, JDBC
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File Formats
CSV, TSV, Protobuf, Avro, Parquet, ORC, JSON
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Cloud Marketplace
AWS, Microsoft Azure
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Compliance Ready
ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, Star Level 1
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Single Sign-On
While OSS users can roll out their own solution, Imply provides fully integrated SSO with MFA.
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Resource Based Access Control
Imply provides full RBAC with security at the row, column, and user level for multitenant use cases.
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Encryption at rest / in motion
Polaris adds to Druid’s TLS capabilities (in motion) with S3/EBS encryption + IPsec (at rest).
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Audit logging
Track and record detailed activity logs to monitor system operations and access.
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Private Networking
Enhance security and control with VPC Peering, Private Link, and mTLS.
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IP Allowlists
Restrict service access to trusted IP addresses.
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You’ll save money, guaranteed.

Our Total Value Guarantee promises you’ll lower the cost of running Druid when you partner with Imply*.
How much, you ask? Our customers have reduced their infrastructure spend for Druid by 50%.

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Flexible deployment options
  • Imply Polaris
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    Database-as-a-service
  • Imply Enterprise Hybrid
    Hybrid managed in AWS
    • Brings the ease of a cloud service to your AWS VPC
    • Access to our managed control pane
  • Imply Enterprise
    Commercial software
    • Deploy on-premises or in the public cloud
    • Access to Imply’s Druid expertise and management software

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