[GitHub] surekhasaharan commented on a change in pull request #6122: New docs intro

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surekhasaharan commented on a change in pull request #6122: New docs intro
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/pull/6122#discussion_r208769335
 
 

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-# Druid Concepts
+# What is Druid?
+
+Druid is a data store designed for high-performance slice-and-dice analytics
+("[OLAP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_analytical_processing)"-style) on large data sets. Druid is most often
+used as a data store for powering GUI analytical applications, or as a backend for highly-concurrent APIs that need
+fast aggregations. Common application areas for Druid include:
+
+- Clickstream analytics
+- Network flow analytics
+- Server metrics storage
+- Application performance metrics
+- Digital marketing analytics
+- Business intelligence / OLAP
+
+Druid's key features are:
+
+1. **Columnar storage format.** Druid uses column-oriented storage, meaning it only needs to load the exact columns
+needed for a particular query.  This gives a huge speed boost to queries that only hit a few columns. In addition, each
+column is stored optimized for its particular data type, which supports fast scans and aggregations.
+2. **Scalable distributed system.** Druid is typically deployed in clusters of tens to hundreds of servers, and can
+offer ingest rates of millions of records/sec, retention of trillions of records, and query latencies of sub-second to a
+few seconds.
+3. **Massively parallel processing.** Druid can process a query in parallel across the entire cluster.
+4. **Realtime or batch ingestion.** Druid can ingest data either realtime (ingested data is immediately available for
+querying) or in batches.
+5. **Self-healing, self-balancing, easy to operate.** As an operator, to scale the cluster up or down, simply add or
 
 Review comment:
   I think more correct term might be be `to scale the cluster out or in,`

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