Category: Column Stores

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . SingleStore’s growth is on fire — globally — and a big reason why is that our technology has strong appeal for both developers and business leaders. Akmal Chaudhri, our London-based Developer Advocate, has a deep understanding of the conversations that take place on both sides of, and across, the table. I recently spoke with Akmal about why he’s excited to be at SingleStore, and why he thinks “the best kept secret '' of the database world (that’s us) is about to turn up the heat even more. Q: OK tell me, what drew you to SingleStore?A: ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . As we start the new year, we wanted to share a few highlights of customer, product and developer community news from SingleStore in 2021. It has useful information for learning about distributed SQL databases, data-intensive applications and the outcomes developers are achieving, so you may want to bookmark this post. To learn more about SingleStore company milestones this past year, check out our CEO Raj Verma’s post.In 2021, we added the most new customers ever in the company’s history, expanded use significantly with existing customers and celebrated some customers’ IPOs. The new customers are innovators ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . Database systems are becoming more and more specialized, with many applications relying on an increasingly complex web of products that are great at running challenging workloads in a particular domain — but are not capable of addressing general-purpose data needs. In contrast, we believe it is possible to design a database that can satisfy a breadth of requirements for transactional and analytical workloads, with world-class performance across both OLTP and OLAP workloads. That database is SingleStore. SingleStore runs demanding production workloads for some of the world's largest financial, telecom, high-tech and energy companies. These customers use ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . SingleStore is eliminating the DeWitt Clause from our contact, allowing us to enable greater transparency around database performance among ourselves and industry competitors. SingleStore always strives to push the boundaries of database performance, and we love sharing the technology  we've built to accomplish that — not to mention, helping our customers and others in the database industry understand the technical innovations that enable SingleStore to achieve state-of-the-art performance on both OLTP and OLAP workloads, in the cloud and at scale.But we don't want you to take our word for it. We believe anyone should be able ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . Modern business can’t run on legacy technology. A strong case in point: the painfully slow performance, high costs and complexity associated with Hadoop. SingleStore offers a streamlined, cost-effective path to modernity with options to augment or replace Hadoop on-premises, or on hybrid cloud environments.It’s 2022. Which means that whatever challenges your organization faced with Hadoop last year have probably intensified. Does this sound familiar?“Here’s the funny thing about Hadoop in 2021: While cost savings and analytics performance were the two most attractive benefits back in the roaring 2010s, the shine has worn off both features ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . People who are just learning about SingleStore often don’t believe that transactions and analytics can be unified into a single database. SingleStore Chief Product Officer Jordan Tigani walks through the steps, encompassing decades of engineering-years, explaining how we did it.“What’s the tradeoff?” is the question I almost always hear when I posit that SingleStore can execute transactions and analytics concurrently, in the same database. When I insist there is no tradeoff, the next response is usually disbelief, even after I dutifully present benchmark results and customer testimonials. Is it true? Should it be true, even? Relational ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . As we gather with friends and family for the holidays, I’d like to take a moment to congratulate and express my gratitude to our team. It’s their passion, skill, and talent that has led us to be recognized as one of the top places to work in the Bay Area and as a leading cloud database company.This is the season for reflecting on the past, giving thanks for the present, and planning for the future. I’m appreciative of the community we have created, and over the past year I have seen the unwavering strength of ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . This article covers the different ways you can connect to the memSQL database using R script — particularly using RMySQL and RJDBC libraries.In this article, I will be describing the different ways you can connect to the memSQL database using R. In particular, we will be discussing the RMySQL and RJDBC libraries.One interesting fact about memSQL is although its architecture has nothing to do with the open source MySQL database, memSQL makes it fairly easy to connect to the memSQL databases using MySQL database connectivity drivers. In short, you can connect to the memSQL database ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . SingleStore, the only database you will ever need, makes its Gartner MQ DebutYesterday SingleStore achieved a significant milestone. We made our debut in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (CDBMS). This is very exciting for us. DB-Engines.com lists 360 database vendors, only 20 of those made it onto this esteemed list. We owe this recognition first to our customers who have chosen SingleStore. We thank you for your trust and commitment to our product and for believing in our vision. Second, we owe it to our partners, for embracing the integration of SingleStore ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . Limitless point-in-time recovery (PITR) is one of the hottest features in SingleStore 7.5, offering new, mission-critical capabilities for enterprise customers. Domenic Ravita takes a deep dive into PITR with SingleStore’s VP of Product Development, Rick Negrin, to find out how this new feature benefits database administrators, executives and developers.A few weeks ago I blogged about the highlights of SingleStore 7.5, recapping our recent webinar, “What’s New in SingleStore Summer Release?” One of its most hotly anticipated capabilities is limitless point-in-time recovery (PITR) which, as it sounds like, allows you to recover a complete database to any ... Read More