Druid
Distributed, column-oriented, real-time analytics data store.
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Still maintained? Yes: 706 commits in the last 90 days, latest release druid-38.0.0 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Analytics: Google Analytics alternatives, Amplitude alternatives, Looker alternatives, Mixpanel alternatives.
At a glance
Druid quick facts
- Health score
- 97/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 14,092
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- druid-38.0.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
Top alternatives to Druid
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Druid is a high performance real-time analytics database. Druid's main value add is to reduce time to insight and action."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Druid scores 97/100, #5 of 33 in Analytics: 706 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (druid-38.0.0, 29 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 14,092 stars add 16.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 3.4 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
706 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
druid-38.0.0 released 29 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 16.6 / 20
14k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 706
- Last 90 days
- 1,438
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #5 of 33 tools in Analytics by health , between Umami (#4) and Rybbit (#6) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Java, Docker |
| Latest release | druid-38.0.0 · 29 days ago |
| Stars | 14,092 |
| Open issues | 659 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | apache/druid ↗ |
Druid vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Druid (Analytics), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umami | 98 | 40k | MIT | yesterday |
| Druid (this tool) | 97 | 14k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Rybbit | 96 | 13k | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| Countly Community Edition | 95 | 5.9k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| RudderStack | 95 | 4.5k | Elastic-2.0 | today |
| GoModel | 92 | 1.3k | MIT | yesterday |
Druid: common questions
Is Druid still maintained?
Druid had 706 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, druid-38.0.0, is from 29 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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