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Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. With the MemSQL 7.1 release, we’re continuing our journey to a simpler data platform, offering speed, scalability, and SQL – accessible to everyone, and easy to use. The release is available today as downloadable software and at the core of MemSQL Helios, our elastic managed service in the cloud.  Simplicity There is a trend, especially in the cloud, to add a new, specialized data management technology for each separate type of workload. Part of our solution to this is MemSQL SingleStore, which unifies transactions and analytics in a single data table.  With the 7.1 ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Lorrin Smith-Bates. Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, once said, “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” MemSQL is designed to be as familiar as possible to SQL users, while bringing the advantages of full, linear scale-out to the relational database world. Our new, free training courses are designed to leverage whatever you already know, provide you with the new information you need, and help you to be successful with MemSQL right from day one. First, a word about the design of the training. MemSQL’s ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Micah Bhakti. MemSQL Tools is our newer approach to helping you configure and manage downloadable MemSQL software. (If you choose MemSQL Helios, we do the administration for you.) Most users are already on MemSQL Tools. In recent months, we’ve introduced a slew of new features that will encourage most remaining MemSQL users to move to Tools from our former solution, MemSQL Ops. In this blog post, I’ll describe the new features, the philosophy behind MemSQL Tools, and why we encourage you to use MemSQL Tools exclusively going forward. MemSQL introduced MemSQL tools and MemSQL Studio the ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Gina von Esmarch. Tech and financial veteran George Kadifa brings deep experience to further accelerate MemSQL’s growth SAN FRANCISCO – May 27, 2020 – George Kadifa, co-founder and Managing Director of Sumeru Equity Partners, will join MemSQL, the Database of NOW™ for operational analytics and cloud-native applications, as an advisor. He will provide MemSQL with growth guidance, market insights, and relevant industry connections, as a proven seasoned leader with database industry experience. “With three decades of operating experience in the technology sector, George brings MemSQL a wealth of knowledge, having previously run large data management businesses at ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Roxanna Pourzand. You can now validate the hardware and software environment for MemSQL, before you install the software. As you may already know, the MemSQL-Report module within MemSQL Tools allows you to run health checks on your database. The new functionality in MemSQL-Report lets you run environment validation checks – before you install MemSQL. These checks ensure that machines are appropriately configured for the best performance of the database, and the least likelihood of future problems.  MemSQL is a high-performance database; it ingests data rapidly, and supports workloads that require fast transaction processing, low query latency, ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Gina von Esmarch. The following press release appeared on BusinessWire today, with the subhead: Non-Dilutive Financing Provides Tech Company with Added Fuel to Accelerate Growth. SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MemSQL, the No-Limits Database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications, has signed a debt facility that provides up to $50 million of new capital. Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC), the largest non-bank venture debt provider with more than $2.4 billion in total assets, served as underwriter for the financing. “This is a strong vote of confidence for MemSQL’s future. Our FY20 financial performance concluded with an impressive 70% growth in ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Domenic Ravita. True Digital Group is using MemSQL to power a contact tracing app, preventing the spread of COVID-19 in Thailand. The app uses React and Web Workers in the frontend, with MemSQL Pipelines and time series functions processing fast ingestion of events, and geospatial functions used to plot data on the map in real-time. The first functional version of the app was built in two weeks.   Our Global Lockdown Preventing the spread of the COVID-19 disease has been our collective priority in this pandemic. By avoiding non-essential, discretionary travel such as shopping trips and social ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. MemSQL and Fiddler Labs are working together to offer the power of MemSQL to users of Fiddler’s toolset for explainable AI – and to offer Fiddler’s explainability tools to the many MemSQL customers who are already using, or moving to, operational AI. To this end, the two companies are offering new, efficient ways to connect MemSQL self-managed software, and the MemSQL Helios managed service in the cloud, to Fiddler’s toolset.  MemSQL is very well-suited to the demands of operationalizing AI – that is, powering machine learning models and AI applications as they’re put into ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Rob Richardson. This is the third blog post derived from the recent DZone webinar given by Rob Richardson, technical evangelist at MemSQL. (From the link, you can easily download the slides and stream the webinar.) Kubernetes was originally developed to manage containers running stateless workloads, such as computation-intensive processing tasks and web servers. It was then extended to allow you to manage stateful workloads, such as data tables and e-commerce sessions, but doing so is not easy. Rob is one of the relatively few people who have figured out how to do this well.  The webinar ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. A major oil and gas company works in a volatile market, where IoT data floods in at the rate of gigabytes per second – and where up-to-date financial projections, generated by a .NET application, serve as a major competitive advantage. After considering MongoDB and Oracle Exadata, they replaced two NoSQL databases at the core of their analytics architecture  – MapR and ElasticSearch – with MemSQL. After a fast implementation, they now run financial forecasts multiple times a day, with much greater performance, with many fewer servers, and at much lower cost than with competitors ... Read More