Imply Data, Inc. is an American

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. It develops and provides commercial support for the open-source

Apache Druid Druid is a column-oriented, open-source, distributed data store written in Java. Druid is designed to quickly ingest massive quantities of event data, and provide low-latency queries on top of the data.Hemsoth, Nicole. , ''Datanami'', 8 November ...

, a real-time

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designed to power

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applications.

History

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was open-sourced in October 2012 under the

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. Over time, notable organizations including

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and

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adopted the project into their technology stacks. The increased adoption led the team to change the license of the project to Apache. In October 2015 the company raised $2 million from

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. and launched its first product, combining Apache Druid and additional open-source components, including a user interface and the PlyQL SQL-like query language, plus enterprise support. In December 2019 it raised an additional $30 million, suggesting a valuation of $350 million. The funding round was led by

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with participation from

and Geodesic Ventures. A Series C round of $70 million, valuing the company at $700 million, was announced in June, 2021, led by

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. Also in November, 2021, Imply announced Project Shapeshift, designed to develop a hardware-abstracting, auto-scaling control plane and SaaS service for Apache Druid; extend the Druid SQL API from querying to ingestion, processing and transformation; and build a serverless and elastic consumption platform.

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