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 [See in the documentation](http://airbnb.io/caravel/installation.html)
 
 
-What is Druid?
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-From their website at http://druid.io
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-*Druid is an open-source analytics data store designed for
-business intelligence (OLAP) queries on event data. Druid provides low
-latency (real-time) data ingestion, flexible data exploration,
-and fast data aggregation. Existing Druid deployments have scaled to
-trillions of events and petabytes of data. Druid is best used to
-power analytic dashboards and applications.*
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