SHSelfHostIndex
DR

Druid

Distributed, column-oriented, real-time analytics data store

Web Analytics ★ 14.1k stars Medium setup Apache-2.0

Apache Druid is a distributed, column-oriented analytics database built for fast slice-and-dice queries on large event streams. It targets teams running real-time dashboards over clickstream or telemetry data. It is deployed via Docker Compose or Helm.

Official siteSource code

Key features

  • Sub-second OLAP queries
  • Real-time streaming ingestion
  • Column-oriented storage
  • Horizontally scalable

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Very fast aggregations
  • Handles streaming and batch
  • Proven at scale

Trade-offs

  • Complex multi-node architecture
  • Weak joins and updates

Is Druid secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Druid's latest release (druid-38.0.0). OSV.dev lists 12 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-23906, published 2026-02-10 (246 days ago), fixed in 36.0.0

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Druid replaces

Self-hosted ClickHouse alternatives

Health badge

Maintain Druid? Add its health score to your README. The badge links back to this page.

SelfHostIndex: 95 · excellent

Markdown
[![SelfHostIndex health score for Druid](https://selfhostindex.com/badge/druid.svg)](https://selfhostindex.com/app/druid/)
HTML
<a href="https://selfhostindex.com/app/druid/"><img src="https://selfhostindex.com/badge/druid.svg" alt="SelfHostIndex health score for Druid"></a>
reStructuredText
.. image:: https://selfhostindex.com/badge/druid.svg
   :alt: SelfHostIndex health score for Druid
   :target: https://selfhostindex.com/app/druid/

The score is recomputed on every nightly rebuild from public repository data — see how it is calculated.

Similar web analytics apps