--- id: select-query title: "Select queries" sidebar_label: "Select" --- <!-- ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one ~ or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file ~ distributed with this work for additional information ~ regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance ~ with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at ~ ~ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ~ ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY ~ KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations ~ under the License. --> Older versions of Apache Druid included a Select query type. Since Druid 0.17.0, it has been removed and replaced by the [Scan query](../querying/scan-query.md), which offers improved memory usage and performance. This solves issues that users had with Select queries causing Druid to run out of memory or slow down.