32. Database of Databases
Druid vs Presto: What are the differences?
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.
What is Presto? Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data. Presto
is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive
analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes
to petabytes.
Druid and Presto can be categorized as "Big Data" tools.
Both Support OLAP (Cube) concept.
