Imply

Imply is a private company that builds a real-time analytics database and application platform on top of Apache Druid, the open-source OLAP data store. Imply was co-founded by Fangjin Yang, Gian Merlino, and Vadim Ogievetsky — three engineers who were among the original creators of Apache Druid — along with Yang Peisong. The company is headquartered in Burlingame, California.

Imply's primary product is a managed analytics platform built around Apache Druid, designed for high-concurrency, sub-second queries on large volumes of event and time-series data. The target buyers are engineering and data teams at companies that need to embed real-time analytics directly into customer-facing applications or internal operational dashboards — use cases where latency and query concurrency requirements exceed what general-purpose data warehouses like Snowflake or BigQuery are designed to serve. The platform is sold in both a self-managed (open-source Druid plus enterprise extensions) and a fully managed cloud form.