Amazon Redshift Spectrum vs Druid

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Amazon Redshift Spectrum vs Druid: What are the differences?

What is Amazon Redshift Spectrum? Exabyte-Scale In-Place Queries of S3 Data. With Redshift Spectrum, you can extend the analytic power of Amazon Redshift beyond data stored on local disks in your data warehouse to query vast amounts of unstructured data in your Amazon S3 “data lake” -- without having to load or transform any data.

What is Druid? Fast column-oriented distributed data store. Druid is a distributed, column-oriented, real-time analytics data store that is commonly used to power exploratory dashboards in multi-tenant environments. Druid excels as a data warehousing solution for fast aggregate queries on petabyte sized data sets. Druid supports a variety of flexible filters, exact calculations, approximate algorithms, and other useful calculations.

Amazon Redshift Spectrum and Druid can be categorized as "Big Data" tools.

Druid is an open source tool with 8.31K GitHub stars and 2.08K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Druid's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Druid has a broader approval, being mentioned in 24 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Amazon Redshift Spectrum, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Pros of Amazon Redshift Spectrum
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    Good Performance
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    Great Documentation
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    Economical
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    Real Time Aggregations
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    Batch and Real-Time Ingestion
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    OLAP
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    OLAP + OLTP
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    Combining stream and historical analytics
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Cons of Amazon Redshift Spectrum
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      Limited sql support
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      Joins are not supported well
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    What is Amazon Redshift Spectrum?

    With Redshift Spectrum, you can extend the analytic power of Amazon Redshift beyond data stored on local disks in your data warehouse to query vast amounts of unstructured data in your Amazon S3 “data lake” -- without having to load or transform any data.

    What is Druid?

    Druid is a distributed, column-oriented, real-time analytics data store that is commonly used to power exploratory dashboards in multi-tenant environments. Druid excels as a data warehousing solution for fast aggregate queries on petabyte sized data sets. Druid supports a variety of flexible filters, exact calculations, approximate algorithms, and other useful calculations.

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    What are some alternatives to Amazon Redshift Spectrum and Druid?
    Amazon Athena
    Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.
    Amazon Redshift
    It is optimized for data sets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1,000 per terabyte per year, a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.
    MySQL
    The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
    PostgreSQL
    PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.
    MongoDB
    MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
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