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title: "Druid vs Redshift"
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# Druid vs Redshift
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### How does Druid compare to Redshift?
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In terms of drawing a differentiation, Redshift started out as ParAccel (Actian), which Amazon is licensing and has since heavily modified.
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Aside from potential performance differences, there are some functional differences:
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### Real-time data ingestion
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Because Druid is optimized to provide insight against massive quantities of streaming data; it is able to load and aggregate data in real-time.
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Generally traditional data warehouses including column stores work only with batch ingestion and are not optimal for streaming data in regularly.
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### Druid is a read oriented analytical data store
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Druid’s write semantics are not as fluid and does not support full joins (we support large table to small table joins). Redshift provides full SQL support including joins and insert/update statements.
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### Data distribution model
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Druid’s data distribution is segment-based and leverages a highly available "deep" storage such as S3 or HDFS. Scaling up (or down) does not require massive copy actions or downtime; in fact, losing any number of Historical processes does not result in data loss because new Historical processes can always be brought up by reading data from "deep" storage.
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To contrast, ParAccel’s data distribution model is hash-based. Expanding the cluster requires re-hashing the data across the nodes, making it difficult to perform without taking downtime. Amazon’s Redshift works around this issue with a multi-step process:
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* set cluster into read-only mode
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* copy data from cluster to new cluster that exists in parallel
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* redirect traffic to new cluster
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### Replication strategy
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Druid employs segment-level data distribution meaning that more processes can be added and rebalanced without having to perform a staged swap. The replication strategy also makes all replicas available for querying. Replication is done automatically and without any impact to performance.
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ParAccel’s hash-based distribution generally means that replication is conducted via hot spares. This puts a numerical limit on the number of nodes you can lose without losing data, and this replication strategy often does not allow the hot spare to help share query load.
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### Indexing strategy
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Along with column oriented structures, Druid uses indexing structures to speed up query execution when a filter is provided. Indexing structures do increase storage overhead (and make it more difficult to allow for mutation), but they also significantly speed up queries.
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ParAccel does not appear to employ indexing strategies.
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