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Panoramix
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Panoramix is a web UI to slice and dice data out of Druid.io

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What's Druid?
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From their website at http://druid.io

*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.*

Panoramix
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Panoramix's main goal is to make it easy to slice, dice and visualize data
out of Druid. It empowers its user to perform **analytics 
at the speed of thought**.

Panoramix started as a hackathon project at Airbnb in while running a POC
(proof of concept) on using Druid. 

Panoramix provides:
* A way to query intuitively a Druid dataset, allowing for grouping, filtering
    limiting and defining a time granularity
* Many charts and visualization to analyze your data, as well as a flexible
    way to extend the visualization capabilities
* An extensible, high granularity security model allowing intricate rules
    on who can access which features, and integration with major 
    authentication providers (through Flask AppBuiler)
* A simple semantic layer, allowing to control how Druid datasources are 
    displayed in the UI,
    by defining which fields should show up in which dropdown and which
    aggregation and function (metrics) are made available to the user