Apache Druid is the open source analytics database that enables development of modern data-intensive applications of any size. It provides sub-second response times on streaming and historical data and can scale to deliver real-time analytics with data ingestion at any data flow rate – resulting in lightning fast queries at any concurrency. In this talk you will learn how Apache Druid works and how its new features take it to a new level. You will hear about its optimized storage and data distribution system that provide speed and scale. We'll cover its new multi-stage query engine delivering SQL based ingestion of massive amounts of data and its new nested JSON capabilities delivering schema full schema flexibility without sacrificing speed. Join us and learn about the future of realtime and interactive analytics.