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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Apache Druid

19Judge labels

0First choices

8Negative labels

10 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Apache Druid was named 3 times in Time series DBs and 1 other category, where TimescaleDB led with 63%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business58 of 61

under the label threshold

Mid-market37 of 66

under the label threshold

Enterprise13 of 69

under the label threshold

In time series dbs · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Apache Druid for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Time series databases	Data platform	0%	37 of 66	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by TimescaleDB at 63%
Telemetry pipelines	IT operations and endpoint	0%	53 of 124	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by OpenTelemetry Collector at 37%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Apache Druid yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Apache Druid across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“such as VictoriaMetrics, TimescaleDB, QuestDB, or Druid” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Telemetry pipelines · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Druid does not support short frequent insertions, making it unsuitable for high-frequency streaming scenarios.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Time series DBs · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Apache Druid, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Apache Druid was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ClickHouse Cloud16 of 190Not among the top eight

TimescaleDB15 of 199Not among the top eight

InfluxDB14 of 195Not among the top eight

QuestDB13 of 191Not among the top eight

Prometheus10 of 191Not among the top eight

Amazon Timestream8 of 192Not among the top eight

VictoriaMetrics7 of 191Not among the top eight

PostgreSQL5 of 191Not among the top eight

Apache Cassandra5 of 190Not among the top eight

OpenTSDB5 of 190Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Apache Druid. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 14 of the 19 answers that named Apache Druid and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

influxdata.com10

tigerdata.com9

questdb.com8

us.fitgap.com7

guideflow.com6

clickhouse.com5

cratedb.com4

mgsoftware.nl4

viasocket.com4

alibaba.com3

Sixty of the sixty domain citations in answers naming Apache Druid came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

tigerdata.com/learn/the-best-time-series-databases-compared8

questdb.com/blog/best-time-series-databases7

guideflow.com/blog/time-series-database-software5

clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/what-is-time-series-database4

influxdata.com/blog/why-time-series-database-influxdb4

mgsoftware.nl/en/tools/best-time-series-databases4

tigerdata.com/learn/time-series-database-what-it-is-how-it-works-and-when-you-need-one4

viasocket.com/discovery/blog/0q7cxp/top-time-series-databases-for-real-time-analytics4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

druid.apache.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Apache Druid takes 0% of first choices and TimescaleDB takes 63%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “time series database”

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not in the top ten

Position for “time series databases”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 880 a month (“apache druid”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 27 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 796 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 109 · 20 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,828
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 37 of 66 in time series dbs

Segment leader

63%

TimescaleDB

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 19 answers
Its own site cited: in 14 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on druid.apache.org

275

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

258

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	2025-10 to 2026-09	Latest	Categories named
Comparison	6	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page druid.apache.org exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Apache Druid

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Apache Druid; a claim can dispute any of them.

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Follow Apache Druid

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Apache Druid is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: A high performance, real-time analytics database that delivers sub-second queries on streaming and batch data at scale and under load.
druid.apache.org
For: Developers and analysts
druid.apache.org
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Apache Druid's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: druid.apache.org, druid.apache.org/docs/latest/multi-stage-query/security. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Apache Druid's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Apache Druid, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Apache Druid by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Apache Druid is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Apache Druid, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.