Apache Druid
Apache Druid is an open source, distributed columnar data store designed for sub-second querying of events and historical data. Druid is optimized for data where a timestamp is present, and supports analytic workloads such as aggregations and groupBys, making it a suitable tool for BI and time series data.
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