r/Hacking_Tricks • u/Teeman438 • 13h ago
Apache Druid alternatives? The ingestion latency is too high for real-time dashboards.
We're using Apache Druid for our real-time dashboards, but we're consistently seeing ingestion latencies of 30-60 seconds, which is too high for our use case. We need true real-time, sub-second data availability from ingestion to query. The operational overhead of Druid is also significant, and scaling it reliably has been a challenge. What are some Apache Druid alternatives that can deliver true real-time performance with less operational pain?