Brad Anderson from MapR Technologies presented on technologies for interactive analysis (Apache Drill) and stream processing (Storm) beyond traditional batch processing with Hadoop/MapReduce. Drill allows interactive queries over large datasets through its columnar storage and distributed query engine. Storm is a framework for real-time computation over streaming data through topologies of processing components. M7 provides a more reliable and higher performance alternative to HBase through its unified storage and simplified architecture with no external daemons.