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SingleStore
Formerly MemSQL

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What is SingleStore?

SingleStore aims to deliver the world’s fastest distributed SQL database for data-intensive applications: SingleStoreDB, which combines transactional + analytical workloads in a single platform.

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SingleStore and its Advantages

9 out of 10
March 26, 2022
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  • Setup fee optional
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  • Free/Freemium Version
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Product Details

What is SingleStore?

The world’s leading brands rely on data to make the right business decisions, to deliver exceptional customer experiences, and to stay ahead of the competition. This reliance on data brings with it a need for simplicity, speed, and scale. SingleStore aims to deliver the world’s fastest distributed SQL database for data-intensive applications: SingleStoreDB. By combining transactional + analytical workloads, the vendor states that SingleStore eliminates performance bottlenecks and unnecessary data movement to support constantly growing, demanding workloads. Customers spanning every vertical, including many Fortune 500/Global 2000/Inc.5000 brands, choose SingleStore to unleash the power of their data and supercharge real-time data experiences for their customers.

SingleStore Videos

The World's Fastest Database for Data-Intensive Applications
The Real-Time Revolutionorld's Fastest Database for Data-Intensive Applications
Data-Intensive Applications in Action
Building a Database for Real-Time Applications
A Customer's Big Data Journey From One to Many Products Under a Single Platform

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SingleStore Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsLinux
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

SingleStore aims to deliver the world’s fastest distributed SQL database for data-intensive applications: SingleStoreDB, which combines transactional + analytical workloads in a single platform.

Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, and MongoDB are common alternatives for SingleStore.

Reviewers rate Performance highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of SingleStore are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as our application database and have a tremendous performance impact since we are using SingleStore. We also like how it has developed and what future benefits it will offer.
  • Speed
  • Performance
  • Sizing
  • Managed Service
  • Pricing
  • Larger User base
Suited well for application databases. Not best fit for key-value storages.
February 08, 2023

The future is HTAP

Pierre Bazoge | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SigneStore as the primary database for our Digital Marketing OS. It allows us to process transactions and answer complex analytical queries within the same database.
  • HTAP workloads
  • query profiling and explanations
  • customer support
  • visibility over memory management
  • the code source is closed, so we can't audit it for backdoors
  • would help to manage cluster settings via the UI without SQL
SingleStore shines where you want to execute complex analytical queries over your datasets in real-time, and still want to handle transactions. It prevents you from having a transaction database and a separate async analytical database.However running SingleStore is expensive, it requires a powerful cluster with a lot of RAM. If don't need to process real-time analytics, you won't benefit much from SingleStore.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SingleStore to manage a large and complex analytical workload for multiple financial customers. SingleStore is the database behind our real-time user interface. SingleStore also hosts our dashboards that display a mixture of data computed dynamically at the time of display and pre-computed values generated when data is ingested. Our software allows users to track the performance of retirement plans, and to compare data across plans. Many of these operations are data-intensive and we've been able to roll out many new and often compute-hungry features since switching to SingleStore two years ago.
  • Technical support is stellar -- far above and beyond anything I've experienced with any other company.
  • When we compared SingleStore to other databases two years ago, we found SingleStore performance to be far superior.
  • Pipeline data ingestion is exceptionally fast.
  • The ability to combine transactional and analytical workloads without compromising performance is very impressive.
  • Although backups are robust, better support for incremental backups would be nice to have.
  • Support for IPv6 in the firewall settings for the cloud-based product would be useful.
  • An interface for scheduling maintenance in the cloud-based product would be a great improvement, though I hear that's coming soon.
Our workload is 100% analytical. We also have to ingest a lot of data each month. SingleStore is a perfect match for our needs because it has fast pipelines for data ingestion and great performance, even in large and complex queries. We need fast response times for our user interface and great performance in our ETL processes, which are rather complicated. SingleStore handles all of this very well.
Rex Elardo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I was doing some data engineering for this one client, and I thought that migration would take up to two weeks. In the end, thanks to Single store I was able to get everything done in less than an hour! The learning curve was incredibly easy, and incredibly well documented!
  • Speed
  • documentation
  • efficiency
  • I would love an SDK
  • A CLI would be cool
  • Beyond that, the nodes work great! I was confused at first but then understood how each plan is different
If you have a massive database, then Singlestore is perfect for you! You can save lots of time on many projects, get everything faster :)
However, if you database is relatively small (under 1GB) then the value that SingleStore provides may not be there for you. Yes, even 1GB can take 15 minutes to upload sometimes but that is not awful.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are an analytics SaaS product and currently use Singlestore as our primary database. Customer data from different sources - website, ad platforms, CRM are streamed into singlestore and our end users can directly query this data from our web application. Queries are run against the singlestore database which helps us in streamlining the ingestion and analytical use cases.

The core business problems being solved by Singlestore are - having a unified database for customer data, running low latency queries and serving responses within tight SLAs to our clients
  • Single database which can handle data ingestion and analytical queries at the same time. Helps achieve a consistent state of the data and power real time analytics
  • Very low latency query responses
  • SQL compatibility
  • Currently the costing happens at the configuration level - S2, S4 etc and is hence not fully elastic. As an end user, I expect the same flexibility as provided by Data warehouse solutions wherein it is truly Pay as much as we use
  • More visibility into Singlestore's feature roadmap and timelines would help in planning as and end user
Any application which needs 1. Low Latency query responses and 2. Access to real time data would benefit from implementing SingleStore. Use cases which are not time sensitive and can run in adhoc batch mode may be well suited to work off data warehouses. Also, SingleStore helps reduce operational overhead in terms of engineers managing batch and real time flows separately
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have a lot of queries for analyzing data about student engagement and courses chosen and bought; we need to get future trends by combining our data with the data coming from open sources and bought. Most problems are related to the processing of big volumes of data and presenting it using tableau and power bi dashboards.
  • Scalability on demand.
  • Near real time performance.
  • Easy query profiling.
  • Usability
  • Reliability and Availability.
  • Performance
The most important use case is to load huge files into a distributed database system within a short span of time without having memory and time complexities. Whenever there is a need to transfer data for ETL during the staging phase and data warehousing stage, the load should be transferred without a lot of resource usage. Especially in the cloud space, the lesser we use the resources, the more cost-effective SingleStore is perfect for running data analytics workloads due to how easy it is to get data in & out. The performance and ease of use of the product are almost unmatched, which saves us a tremendous amount of time over having to spin up custom RDS instances for data analytics.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's our main data store. SingleStore replaced MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and Elasticsearch. It's being used for OLAP, OLTP, search and cache at the same time.
SingleStore has seriously decreased our infrastructure complexity, allowing us to move faster and with more confidence.
It has also allowed us to decrease infrastructure cost.
  • Mixing OLAP and OLTP in the same cluster
  • Support and customer success team really is great
  • OLAP performance
  • Predictable performance scaling with cluster resources
  • **Much** better monitoring
  • Alerting
  • Smaller clusters offerings
  • More granular scaling
  • Better search features
  • Multi language support for search
  • Slow query visibility and analysis in real production workload
It has transformed into my go to database software. The only scenario in which I wouldn't use or recommend it, is if their base managed cluster is too expensive and I don't want to managed it myself
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use singlestoreDB as our landing storage for our product. Our product provides insights in data and quality of data. For that we require fast ingestion feom sources like S3, GCS and Azure Blob. We extensively use singlestoreDB's PIPELINE function for ingesting data into SingleStoreDB. We ran our ML algorithms on the data stored on singlestoreDB. Which gave us really good results and helped optimize our algorithms by using some of its inbuilt features
  • Data ingestion from object stores
  • Storing data in row and columnar store
  • Data ingestion from S3 to singlestoreDB takes 6secs for 550K records with 30 columns
  • Data ingestion from JDBC sources
  • More robust and easy to use Integration with tools like spark
  • More options for setting up and doing PoC with singlestoreDB
singlestoreDB can be used for both staging data and creating marts on which ML algorithms can be run.
The most interesting part is their pipeline function which allows really fast and consistent ingestion of data. And setting up these pipelines is really easy with configurations for sources system creds.
Samiran Mudgalkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The most important use case is to load huge files into a distributed database system within a short span of time without having memory and time complexities. Whenever there is a need of transferring data for ETL during the staging phase and data warehousing stage, the load should be transferred without a lot of resource usage. Especially in the cloud space, the lesser we use the resources, the more cost-effective it is.
  • UI design
  • Perfect SQL editor and faster query execution
  • Ease of pipeline creation for data loads
  • Need to have a place to create an admin user for the first information schema database. Because when we log in, we do not have admin access by default to the system.
  • The state of the pipeline is not available if the currently available load is finished, there is extra work to check if all your files in the current load are complete.
  • The Dashboard can be a bit more simplified than having a lot of details.
1. The one place where it is required the most is, during ETL processing where the resource utilisation is optimized and faster data load is achieved.

2. The places where it is not suited are, when the data load is very low and there is not much difference achieved while execution of data loads.
Ruslan Smirnov | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
SingleStore is perfect for running data analytics workloads due to how easy it is to get data in & out. The performance and ease of use of the product are almost unmatched, which saves us a tremendous amount of time over having to spin up custom RDS instances for data analytics.
  • I was amazed at the ability to connect to the cluster with third-party clients, including native vendor-supplied MySQL command line tools.
  • The ease of exporting data from an existing MySQL database and loading it into SingleStore is impressive.
  • Speed and ease of use. Everything is streamlined for you to hit the ground running with minimal learning curve.
  • The mysqldump file required some manual massaging before it could be ingested. This was expected, and I am surprised how little manual modification is needed, but nonetheless -- this could be improved.
  • Some GUI database tools (such as MySQL Workbench) have trouble connecting and need additional configuration.
Insofar, it seems perfect for data analytics workloads and ad-hoc queries against large datasets. What we particularly like is the ease with which data can be ingested, and the speed/performance of the product. Everything is very streamlined and in one place. I am not sure where it would be inappropriate as I haven't used it long enough, but so far I like everything.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Real-time Analytics and Reporting can be best used in cases as Single Store is very much efficient on faster and complex query processing. It is extremely fast on data ingestion from many sources (AWS, Azure,GCP, Files etc).
  • Faster query result as Relational Database.
  • High Availability.
  • Load data from one or more data sources.
  • Loads external data in real-time.
  • Distributed and partition feature with master-Slave architecture.
  • Load data from a file that is located on the filesystem.
  • Power up legacy database and support massive workload.
  • MySql Client can access MemSql with same query experience.
  • SingleStore has this unique ingest capability it can do parallel ingest of data from sources like S3, Azure Blob, GCS, Kafka.
  • Can be integration with Tableau for Data Visualization.
  • There should be powerful Data Visualization.
  • There can be a better Query Builder UI.
  • No implicit ordering of results by primary key.
SingleStore is very much recommendable. It has a lot of features like faster complex query execution, ANSI standard MySQL compatibility, high Data availability, and many more. Due to Distributed database architecture, the database can be scaled. It is also much useful for Real-Time data Analytic and Reporting. It powers up the legacy database and supports a massive workload.
Amarpreet Saluja | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I am a DevOps Engineer and I work on Kubernetes, Cloud, I had a use case where I was working on creating a product that can calculate Kubernetes and cloud costs and represent it in that use case I was supposed to ingest data which was being populated in s3 to my database on which I can run queries, this using SingleStore could have been seem-less as it makes data ingestion from cloud simpler and since it helps running lot vol queries with smaller response time could have helped me lower the latency of my service.
  • Compatibility with S3 and data formats such as Parquet, JSON, and CSV
  • Can be Deployed on a Kubernetes Cluster and can be scaled seamlessly.
  • Great UI and support documentation available to look and work around.
  • Scale out capability
  • Fast data ingestion and queries
  • Can be used to lower the latencies of various services
  • Did not find support for User Defined Functions.
  • It opens a new query result tab and that feels irritating to me personally.
  • Lot of RAM required while running Developer instances locally.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
the product currently is excellent, it deserves 10/10, just the fact of processing more than 1 million records in a few seconds, whatever in the import of the data or the requests, it is already a great advantage, that we the developers we never dreamed of that. I'm telling you about my experience, no vacuum, because I've had nightmares with large databases, and we have to play right and left to optimize response time It is really amazing. I've never in my life worked on such a fast database
  • super fast
  • execute complex query
  • the use of several types of database
  • availablity
  • sclability
  • open many SQL Editor in same time
  • wizard for object creation (table, view, procedure...)
  • link table from other database
It can be used on any need for data treatment:
• Development
• data analysis
• migration preparation
• for data processing•......
Santhosh Yamsani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I'd be using SingleStore as the POC Database so as to handle data ingestion and analysis of data with a big volume of E-Learning Data. We process the data for different tenants and provide recommendations based on the processing.
  • Handing and processing Json data types fastly ( Actually I worked on it particularly )
  • It is fast and reliable
  • Pay as you use. This is quite a good feature for the customers who have load only during peak hours and doesn't have load during non-peak hours.
  • It is easy to access and can be accessed from anywhere without VPN issues as it is a cloud-based solution.
  • It is very user friendly and all options are easily navigatable.
  • Errors are easily understandable if we go wrong anywhere while doing our operations
  • Fast retrieving and reading data with JSON Formats.
Pros: 1. It is easy to access and can be accessed from anywhere without VPN issues as it is a cloud-based solution. 2. Errors are easily understandable if we go wrong anywhere while doing our operations. 3. It is very user-friendly and all options are easily navigatable. Cons: We should have templates for pulling data from different sources so that we can directly use those templates and change the names in source names and we can easily import data from different sources
Anant Sirohi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I'd be using SingleStore as the primary Database so as to handle real-time ingestion and analysis of data with big volume. The existing data model is working on processing batch data which is not much efficient and fast. I'll be ingesting the data from Kafka and because of the great compatibility of SingleStore with Kafka, I'll be using it to build reports on the top of the data.
  • super fast data ingestion and queries
  • commonly used formats such as csv, json and parquet are well supported
  • MySQL engine allowing the customers also to work easily
  • minimum administration needed
  • support team is quick and helpful
  • Every time i run a new query, it opens a new query result tab
  • Lot of RAM required while running Developer instances locally
  • limited information on the running queries
It would be really fast for OLTP workloads as compared to MySQL and can be used in this use case. While working on large datasets, I've experienced that SingleStore has much faster processing capabilities and is highly recommended in such scenarios.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SingleStore is super easy to implement and use. You can deploy a cluster in a matter of clicks. The UI is very intuitive, and everything is easy to configure even for a new user. The look and feel are very similar to any relational DB workbench. The source configuration is very easy. Other than the good HCI, the query engine is very fast and responsive, computes huge datasets, and delivers results in seconds. Compared to MySQL, it is fast, robust, and has a good IDE. I would definitely recommend it.
  • Responsive and intuitive UI.
  • Query engine is very fast.
  • Very easy to deploy clusters and use the database.
  • Execution plan can be shown when the query is running so that the user might get information of their running queries and where to optimize them
For making up heterogenous source connections, SingleStore is very helpful since it is very easy to configure data sources. Also, in the case of large datasets, the processing capabilities of SingleStore are much faster as compared to MySQL, both being relational databases.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I would use SingleStore databases on e-commerce websites where loads of data are being generated, and where you need a fast data collection to analyze user behaviors and provide real time recommendation.
  • Fast on intense data load
  • Few clicks away to have the environment setup
  • Easiness/speed to load data from different pipelines
  • Great speed on running complex queries
  • SQL Editor opens a new result tab on every query run
  • Consumption of RAM memory through browser if you have many queries
SingleStore environment is easy to adapt, it is extremely fast on collecting data from different sources (AWS, GCP or Azure), provides monitoring of activities and easy use multiple databases. It is good for analytical and recommendation based scenarios, and provides fast results on complex queries. In SingleStore platform queries execution open new tab result for each run, which makes it difficult to navigate over the results.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I am exploring SingleStore as a personal interest to learn new tech skills.
  • Simple and easy interface
  • Similar SQL as we are used to with other RDBMS, so easy to start with
  • The performance is quite awesome
  • At some point I would love to enhance, i.e. it should have an indicator for progress so we are aware if something is running or is completed.
I am not certain about the price comparison of SingleStore to other vendors, but definitely, I would recommend this to those who want to keep one DB for all OLTP and OLAP transactions. It should be a good resource for analytics reports. As it has easy cluster building using any Cloud(GCP, AWS, and Azure), it can be tried by all three cloud developers. I recommend using SingleStore.
Anmol Maitra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Very easy to configure the SingleStore database.
  • Loading data was extremely easy and super fast. I loaded millions of records and it took a few seconds.
  • SingleStore seems to be an ideal database for real-time dashboards.
  • Not too many issues. Only one aggregate function I ran in the database took more than a minute to run, otherwise, performance on queries for millions of records was great.
I have worked on government projects where data is being updated frequently and data needs to be presented on a real-time basis on the dashboard for coordination, etc. SingleStore would be the most appropriate database for this use case.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using SingleStore as our primary analytics database within our own platform (called "Pulse"). The Pulse platform is used primarily in Siemens internally, but is also available to enterprises outside of Siemens.
We offer end to end reporting & analytics services and use SingleStore to power our dashboards and reports.
  • Performance.
  • SQL-interface.
  • Relational online analytical processing (ROLAP).
  • SQL completeness (e.g. triggers).
  • Performance tuning insides.
We have not found an analytical database faster than SingleStore. While our data volume per project is usually below 100 million rows, we expect reporting and analytics queries to be executed within 100ms so that dashboard users can interactively work with their data. So if you are looking for a truly fast analytical database, SingleStore is the right database to use (even though it is also crazy fast for OLTP workloads, but that is not our use case).
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use MemSQL for a particular slice of our OLAP use cases: client-facing UI dashboards that have solid query latency and data freshness requirements (generally 4 9s under 2 seconds, although we try to get under 1, and data replication and recalculation in under a second), and on small to medium size data sets (10s of GB for fact data, GBs or 10s of GBs of dimension data). It is currently owned by a data platform team that supports client-facing use cases from a number of product teams.
  • Data replication.
  • Joins.
  • Small data set processing in memory.
  • User defined functions.
  • Providing optimization options.
MemSQL is well suited for low latency, high data freshness use cases. It can scale significantly, although its in-memory usage does mean the cost of scaling to data size is higher, so I believe for very large data sets (double-triple digit TBs) where less performance (latency/freshness) is needed it may not be worth the cost. We've currently limited its usage to cases where the performance needs are very high.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SingleStore is used for 2 main use cases:
  • In-house developed A/B testing analysis tool uses this to fetch raw data in real-time when end users analyse the tests using the UI.
  • Machine learning models fetch the raw data and calculate needed features in real-time instead of preprocessing the data by the data engineers.
  • Return results of complex queries scanning TBs of data in sub-seconds.
  • Customer support team answer tickets quickly and provide guidance.
  • MySQL engine which allows to query using simple MySQL drivers from different clients.
  • Queries profiling is easy to use and helps investigating performance.
  • Loading batch data using pipelines is complex.
  • No native monitoring and alerts of resources (CPU, RAM, etc.).
  • Performance is strongly coupled with number of nodes (sometimes extra nodes hurt the performance).
  • Very expensive compared to other databases.
SingleStore is well suited for analyzing big raw data in order to provide users with timely fashioned answers, as well as helping less technical teams to be independent of engineering teams and use simple SQL in order to use this data. The problem is that when there's a need to support more than a few TBs the price is very expensive and therefore it will be harder to use for applications in production when sub-second (less than 20ms) response is required.
Elad Gindi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are proud to say that SKAI is a data company and our main asset is our data. My department handles the Measurements data and other incoming data sources. SingleStore is used across the organization to do real-time calculations, supply fast loading grids and store massive amounts of data. In our department, users needed to configure pre-hand MetaData for the calculations that they are basing their decision on. Our nightly batches used to work extremely hard and waste valuable time and resources to make this data available the next day (while storing it both in raw form and aggregated) and any changes required a rerun of the batch. Today the clients can configure, change and get their aggregated data in almost real-time, while the data is being stored in SingleStore only in its raw form. It allowed us to add more calculations and more data and use fewer resources on our server-side and the added bonus is that our clients love it!
  • Real-time calculation.
  • Massive data storage.
  • Real-time updates and integration.
  • Scaling up (adding memory) takes a lot of time.
  • Real-time information about lags is limited.
If you need real-time calculation and reduce DB lags in production it's ideal.

If you're looking only for storage, I would pass.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SingleStore's managed solution as a data warehouse for the analytical analysis of quality metrics. We ingest data from Kafka and build reports on top of the data to inform our customers about various scenarios. We use hosted business intelligence tools to analyze data and answer both specific as well as open-ended questions that our customers may have.
  • Ingesting data from kafka at very high rates.
  • Easy to understand performance characteristics.
  • Hosted solution is bulletproof and always up.
  • Programming languages for ingest logic.
  • Ability to run in our own cloud accounts to save transit costs.
To get up and running quickly with a highly scalable and trusted database that can ingest data at high rates while still providing adequate query performance. We have found great use of MemSQL in heavy write, light read, and never update situations. I would strongly recommend SingleStore in that scenario.
August 10, 2021

Great product

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We worked with MySQL and needed a faster solution that it will be easy to integrate with.
Right now, MemSQL is our main DB and serve all of our customers.
We are transferring data with MemSQL pipelines.
In addition we are collaborating multi DBs into clusters. It is very comfortable instead of MySQL
  • Query time
  • Very easy to MySQL customers to work with
  • Easy to transfer data from other data sources
  • IN operator at where clause
  • Multi key index at columnstore
  • Enable to run cross clusters query
1. If your code is written on top of SQL, it very easy to make to work with MemSQL.
2. If you need to improve your queries performance.
3. If your you don't need to create a lot of tables at online flow (means to create a table for another query).
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