Apache Druid vs. Exasol

Apache Druid

3 Reviews and Ratings

Exasol

4 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Druid	Score10 out of 10	N/A	Apache Druid is an open source distributed data store. Druid’s core design combines ideas from data warehouses, timeseries databases, and search systems to create a high performance real-time analytics database for a broad range of use cases. Druid merges key characteristics of each of the 3 systems into its ingestion layer, storage format, querying layer, and core architecture.	N/A
Exasol	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Exasol, from the company of the same name in Nuremberg, is presented by the vendor as a high-performance in-memory analytics database that aims to transform how organizations works with data, on-premises, in the cloud or both.	N/A

Pricing

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Pricing Offerings
Druid	Exasol
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Best Alternatives
	Druid	Exasol
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	SAP Datasphere Score8.6 out of 10	SAP Datasphere Score8.6 out of 10
Enterprises	Snowflake Score8.7 out of 10	Snowflake Score8.7 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Druid	Exasol
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.6 (4 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.3 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Druid	Exasol
Likelihood to Recommend	Apache It is extremely well suited to rapid ingest of data from large data sources, due to the fact that you can restrict what is ingested by column/field, so that you only pull in the data you actually want or need. As stated earlier, the open source version could use better cluster management tools, and troubleshooting tools for failing jobs/tasks. Verified User Read full review	Exasol Exasol is suited to applications requiring fewer & larger queries (reporting/data analytics/business intelligence tools). Its per-query overhead makes it unsuitable as an operational database (those are optimized for many & smaller queries.) Peter Kioko Senior Database Administrator Read full review
Pros	Apache Rapid ingest Limiting ingest to only the relevant fields/columns Easy ingest spec creation Verified User Read full review	Exasol Performance in ELT/ETL transformations Analytical queries for ad-hoc reporting Python and java code directly in the database near the data! Peter Michael Soerensen Senior DW/BI Consultant Read full review
Cons	Apache Security configuration is problematic Cluster management could have more features Troubleshooting incomplete tasks/jobs is a chore Verified User Read full review	Exasol SaaS offering in Azure Upgradability Management interface Dominic Albrecht Head of Analytics Read full review
Usability	Apache No answers on this topic	Exasol Easy to use foundation, fast and reliable Verified User Read full review
Support Rating	Apache No answers on this topic	Exasol I have had only positive experiences with their support. They are fast, knowledgeable, and courteous. Online support requests get picked up within hours. I've only once had to use their hotline and that was for an emergency. There was even one minor non-security bug report that I reported and which they fixed in the following week's minor release. I was quite impressed. Peter Kioko Senior Database Administrator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Apache No answers on this topic	Exasol Exasol have the best performance by far in analytical queries (DW/BI). Compared to the other database we use much less time on maintenance, actually almost 0 time on indexes distributing data on nodes etc. The system just works out-of-box as long as you have memory enough Peter Michael Soerensen Senior DW/BI Consultant Read full review
Return on Investment	Apache Integration with S3 storage has saved about 35% on our storage, over HDFS The rapid ingest has saved user's time in the query aspects of their applications. The ability to ingest from a variety of data sources has made overall user application queries much simpler Verified User Read full review	Exasol Reduced support needs Monetisation Huge performance benfits Dominic Albrecht Head of Analytics Read full review
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