In the current Big Data era, systems for collecting, storing and efficiently exploiting huge amounts of data are continually introduced, such as Hadoop, Apache Spark, Dremel, etc. Druid is one of theses systems especially designed to manage such data quantities, and allows to perform detailed real-time analysis on terabytes of data within sub-second latencies. One of the important Druid's requirements is fast data filtering. To insure that, Druid makes an extensive use of bitmap indexes. Previously, we introduced a new compressed bitmap index scheme called Roaring bitmap that has shown interesting results when compared to the bitmap compression scheme adopted by Druid: Concise. Since, Roaring bitmap has been integrated to Druid as an indexing solution. In this work, we produce an extensive series of experiments in order to compare Roaring bitmap and Concise time-space performances when used to accelerate Druid's OLAP queries and other kinds of operations Druid realizes on bitmaps, like: retrieving set bits from bitmaps, computing bitmap complements, aggregating several bitmaps with logical ORs and ANDs operations. Roaring bitmap has shown to improve up to ≈ 5× analytical queries response times under Druid compared to Concise.

Druid is an open source data store designed for real-time exploratory analytics on large data sets. The system combines a column-oriented storage layout, a distributed, shared-nothing architecture, and an advanced indexing structure to allow for the arbitrary exploration of billion-row tables with sub-second latencies. In this paper, we describe Druid's architecture, and detail how it supports fast aggregations, flexible filters, and low latency data ingestion.