Projects sharing features with Druid

RisingWave is a cloud-native streaming database and real-time analytics engine that uses standard SQL to process continuous data streams. It functions as a streaming data lakehouse, combining the capabilities of a streaming SQL database with a platform that integrates streaming ingestion with open table formats. The system is distinguished by its use of the PostgreSQL wire protocol, allowing it to integrate with existing SQL tools and drivers. It employs a decoupled compute and storage architecture, persisting streaming state and materialized views in cloud object storage to enable independen

Apache Druid is a real-time analytics database and distributed columnar time-series store designed for sub-second analytical queries. It functions as a data platform featuring a distributed SQL query engine and a real-time data ingestion system for moving historical and streaming data from external sources. The system is distinguished by its ability to provide low-latency analytics under high concurrency to power operational dashboards. It implements a Kerberos-secured environment for user authentication and employs a shared-nothing cluster architecture to enable horizontal scaling. The plat

Doris is a distributed SQL data warehouse designed for high-performance analytical workloads and real-time data processing. It functions as a unified platform that integrates traditional relational warehousing with lakehouse query capabilities, allowing users to execute analytical operations directly against external data lakes without requiring data migration. The system distinguishes itself through a shared-nothing, massively parallel processing architecture that utilizes vectorized query execution and columnar storage to maintain sub-second latency. It supports dynamic schema evolution, en

Rerun is a multimodal data visualizer and robotics data logger designed for rendering synchronized streams of 3D spatial data, images, and time-series metrics. It functions as a tool for capturing high-frequency sensor data and AI outputs into a queryable columnar format, providing a dedicated interface for viewing MCAP recording files and analyzing physical environments. The project distinguishes itself as a machine learning dataset streamer, capable of feeding logged recordings directly into GPU buffers and PyTorch training pipelines without intermediate exports. It supports a high-performa

Hazelcast is a distributed data platform that combines an in-memory data grid with a stream processing engine to support real-time analytics and event-driven applications. It functions as a partitioned, distributed key-value store that replicates data across cluster nodes to provide low-latency access and high availability. The platform also serves as a distributed SQL query engine, allowing users to execute standard SQL statements against both in-memory datasets and external data sources. What distinguishes Hazelcast is its use of a distributed consensus subsystem to maintain strongly consis

Cube is a semantic data layer that provides a unified framework for defining business metrics, dimensions, and relationships across diverse data sources. By acting as a headless business intelligence engine, it transforms raw data into a governed model that can be queried via SQL, REST, and GraphQL interfaces. This architecture ensures consistent data definitions and logic across all downstream analytical applications and reporting tools. The platform distinguishes itself through its integrated conversational AI capabilities, which allow users to explore data using natural language. It orches

QuestDB is a high-performance, distributed time-series database designed for the ingestion, storage, and analysis of massive datasets. It functions as a real-time analytics platform that utilizes a columnar storage engine to optimize disk input and output, enabling efficient analytical scans and complex windowing operations on streaming data. The platform distinguishes itself through specialized capabilities for handling asynchronous time-series streams, including advanced join algorithms that align disparate data sets based on precise timestamp lookups. It supports high-volume ingestion thro

Apache Hive is a SQL-on-Hadoop data warehouse that enables querying and managing petabytes of data stored in distributed storage such as HDFS and cloud storage services. It provides a familiar SQL interface for batch analytics and reporting, supported by a core set of components including the HiveServer2 Thrift service for remote query execution, the Hive Metastore Service for central metadata management, the Hive ACID Transaction Engine for concurrent read-write operations, and the Hive LLAP Interactive Engine for low-latency analytical processing. The WebHCat REST API offers an HTTP interfac

TDengine is a distributed time-series database designed for the high-speed ingestion, compression, and retrieval of timestamped metrics and sensor data. It functions as a SQL-compatible analytics engine, allowing users to perform complex operations on massive volumes of time-ordered information using standard relational syntax. The platform is built to serve as a backend foundation for industrial IoT environments, managing real-time data streams and device metadata through a cluster-based architecture. The system distinguishes itself through a distributed sharding architecture that uses consi

This project serves as a comprehensive technical reference for the architecture and design of data-intensive applications. It provides a structured analysis of the fundamental principles required to build reliable, scalable, and maintainable software systems, covering the core trade-offs inherent in modern data infrastructure. The repository explores the mechanics of distributed data management, including strategies for replication, partitioning, and achieving consensus across multiple nodes. It details the design of storage engines, indexing techniques, and transaction management models, whi

OpenTSDB is a distributed time series database and metrics engine designed for storing and managing massive volumes of high-cardinality system metrics. It functions as a data store and analytics platform that enables large-scale metric ingestion and infrastructure performance monitoring across a distributed cluster. The system distinguishes itself through a distributed storage abstraction that supports multiple backends such as HBase, Cassandra, and Google Bigtable. It utilizes a hierarchical metric tree to organize time series and employs numeric identifier indexing to reduce storage footpri

jStorm is a distributed stream processing engine designed for executing low-latency computations on high-volume data streams using Apache Storm topologies. It functions as a real-time data analytics platform and distributed task orchestrator that manages complex data pipelines via directed acyclic graph execution. The system provides a scalable framework for data pipeline management, incorporating backpressure-aware flow control to regulate ingestion rates and dynamic resource allocation to adjust computing resources based on real-time demand. It maintains compatibility with Apache Storm conf

Benthos is a stream processing engine and data integration pipeline used for routing, transforming, and connecting data streams between diverse sources and sinks. It functions as event routing middleware and a change data capture tool, streaming real-time database modifications as discrete events for downstream processing. The system utilizes a declarative pipeline configuration, where data flow and processing logic are defined in a single static file. It features a specialized domain-specific language for mapping, filtering, and enriching data payloads, allowing for complex transformations w

Perspective is a columnar data analytics library and streaming data visualization engine. It provides an interactive data grid component and notebook analytics widgets designed for processing high-volume data and rendering interactive charts and grids. The system utilizes a high-performance query engine to enable real-time data analysis and streaming dataset visualization. It supports the creation of customizable dashboards and reports that update automatically as new data arrives without requiring full dataset reloads. The project covers large-scale dataset analytics through a schema-driven

LanceDB is a vector database and columnar data store designed to function as a versioned dataset manager and vector search engine. It serves as a high-performance backend for indexing and retrieving high-dimensional embeddings, providing the foundation for machine learning data pipelines. The system distinguishes itself through a combination of cloud-native object storage and immutable version tracking, allowing for data time-travel and reproducible AI experiments. It integrates hybrid search capabilities, merging dense vector similarity with BM25 full-text search and SQL-like scalar filters

Citus is a PostgreSQL extension that transforms a standard database into a distributed system. It functions as a sharding framework and distributed SQL engine, enabling horizontal scaling by partitioning tables across a cluster of nodes. By utilizing a coordinator-worker topology, the system manages metadata and routes queries to the appropriate nodes, allowing for parallel execution of complex operations across distributed data shards. The platform distinguishes itself through its specialized support for multi-tenant architectures and real-time analytical processing. It enables tenant-based

Memgraph is an in-memory, distributed graph database designed for high-performance labeled property graph management. It utilizes a Cypher query engine for declarative data retrieval and manipulation, providing a scalable knowledge graph backend that integrates vector search and graph traversals. The system distinguishes itself as a real-time graph analytics platform, employing native C++ and CUDA implementations to execute complex network analysis and dynamic community detection on streaming data. It provides specialized support for AI integration, including GraphRAG capabilities, the constr

TigerBeetle is a distributed financial accounting database designed for high-volume transaction processing. It functions as a specialized transaction engine that enforces strict double-entry bookkeeping invariants, ensuring that every debit and credit is balanced and accounted for with absolute consistency. By utilizing a consensus-based replication model, the system provides high availability and data durability across geographically distributed clusters, making it suitable for mission-critical financial infrastructure. The system distinguishes itself through a performance-oriented architect

Realtime is a real-time data distribution and synchronization engine that enables applications to stream database changes and coordinate state between clients. It functions as a synchronization layer that monitors database write-ahead logs to provide change data capture and pushes updates to authorized clients via WebSockets. The project features a real-time presence server for tracking the online status of active users and a broadcast service for sending ephemeral messages without database persistence. It organizes communication through channel-based message routing and uses a structured JSO

This project is a curated directory of software, frameworks, and educational resources designed for building, scaling, and maintaining distributed data processing and storage architectures. It serves as a comprehensive index for the distributed computing ecosystem, helping users identify the appropriate tools for managing large-scale information systems. The repository functions as a central hub for data engineering, offering categorized access to technologies that support batch and stream processing, machine learning, and interactive querying. By organizing these resources, it assists in the

This project is a comprehensive Java backend engineering guide and technical reference focused on high-concurrency design, distributed systems, and microservices architecture. It provides detailed strategies for decomposing monolithic applications, managing service discovery, and implementing the architectural patterns required for scalable backend environments. The repository distinguishes itself through an extensive collection of big data algorithmic references and database scaling strategies. It covers memory-efficient techniques for analyzing massive datasets, such as Top-K element extrac

Delta is a lakehouse table format that brings ACID transactions and data warehouse consistency to large scale data lakes on cloud object storage. It serves as an ACID transaction manager, coordinating atomic commits and serializable isolation for concurrent reads and writes across distributed compute engines. The project provides a multi-engine interoperability layer that uses format translation to allow diverse SQL engines and processing frameworks to read and write the same tables. It functions as a data versioning system, utilizing a transaction log to enable time travel, historical snapsh

Apache Spark is a unified distributed data processing engine designed for large-scale data analysis and computation graphs. It functions as a distributed machine learning framework, a graph processing system, a real-time stream processor, and a SQL analytics engine. The system enables the execution of distributed SQL querying, large-scale graph analysis, and real-time stream analytics across clusters of machines. It also provides a scalable environment for implementing machine learning algorithms and predictive model development on massive datasets. The engine incorporates relational query e

ShardingSphere is a distributed SQL database middleware that provides sharding, read-write splitting, and distributed transaction management for relational databases. It functions as a layer that intercepts SQL queries to distribute data across multiple physical database instances for horizontal scaling. The project is distinguished by its ability to operate as either a standalone transparent database proxy or via direct integration as a JDBC driver. It features a SQL dialect translator that parses queries into abstract syntax trees to convert syntax between different database engines, enabli

GreptimeDB is a distributed, open-source time-series database built for unified observability. It stores and queries metrics, logs, and traces together in a single columnar engine, supporting both SQL and PromQL for analysis. The database is designed as a Kubernetes-native operator with a decoupled compute and storage architecture, enabling horizontal scaling and multi-region deployment. What distinguishes GreptimeDB is its role as a multi-protocol ingestion gateway, accepting data through OpenTelemetry, Prometheus Remote Write, InfluxDB, Loki, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and MQTT protocols without

SlateDB is a cloud-native key-value store and distributed database engine that utilizes a log-structured merge-tree architecture. It serves as a transactional storage layer designed to persist data directly to cloud object storage. The engine differentiates itself by optimizing read performance for remote storage through the use of bloom filters and multi-level block caching. It employs a single-writer multi-reader model and provides the ability to create zero-copy clones via copy-on-write checkpointing. The system supports atomic transactions, range queries, and snapshot-based concurrency c

Cassandra is a distributed NoSQL database and wide-column store designed for high availability and linear scalability. It functions as a fault-tolerant distributed system that utilizes an LSM-tree storage engine to optimize write throughput and manage massive datasets. The system is a CQL-compliant database, using a structured query language to manage and retrieve tabular data stored across multiple nodes. It organizes information into rows and columns based on a flexible schema and primary keys. The project provides capabilities for horizontal database scaling, distributed data partitioning