Dave Klein

Apache Kafka is an amazing streaming platform, but it’s always been a challenge to query that streaming data. Apache Druid is a real-time database designed with Kafka in mind. Druid thinks about data the same way that Kafka does. In this session, we’ll get an overview of Apache Druid, and then we’ll focus in on the way it ingests, and queries events from Kafka with such amazing speed. We’ll also see how Druid can combine new incoming event data from Kafka and older stored data in the same query. And, since you’ll probably be as impressed with Druid as I was, I’ll leave you with some resources to continue your learning journey.

As real-time event streaming has become a necessity in many organizations, a plethora of libraries, frameworks, and applications have arisen to help meet that need. These different tools each have their own ways of making our jobs easier, but when starting out, it’s often best to start simple.