July 2019 Summaries

SingleStore is a fast, scalable SQL database used to power interactive queries and outstanding customer experiences in real time. It helps developers build and run machine learning models by providing training data, integrating with machine learning tools, fast ingest, scoring on load, scalability, vector functions, and ANSI SQL support. SingleStore's features support high productivity during development and very fast execution in production, making it a solid choice for machine learning and AI development and deployment. It is widely used to power advanced applications that require fast access to recent data, fast processing, and fast query response, and is being used by companies such as a major US bank to implement fraud detection "on the swipe" with approval decided within one second of the swipe.

Uber is driven by analytics and uses up-to-date information to entice customers and direct drivers in its business. The company faced four challenges: business intelligence, real-time analytics, time series aggregates, and geospatial data. To overcome these challenges, Uber adopted SingleStore, a highly responsive database that provides answers with sub-second response times. SingleStore helps Uber make real-world decisions based on analytical results that the company uses to take action on the go. The database supports ad hoc exploration of data, arbitrary drill down including geospatial filtering and geospatial dimensioning of data, and deduplication. With SingleStore, Uber can analyze metrics for its business in real-time, providing insights into demand, supply, and financials. The system is optimized for aggregated data, not individual records, and provides granular geospatial slicing and dicing of data to help analysts understand marketplace properties of some geo-temporal segment of data.

SingleStore has been featured on business solutions review site G2 Crowd, with customers citing advantages such as MySQL-friendliness, data compression of 60-80%, strong training, and excellent support. The platform is categorized under relational databases software and features a star rating of 4.5 out of 5 points on G2 Crowd. Reviewers praise SingleStore's speed, SQL and MySQL compatibility, distributed database capabilities, specific use cases, affordability, and ease of use. Some reviewers also recommend improvements such as an easier deployment process, better tools, built-in performance monitoring, and making the product more accessible to less-savvy users. Users can post reviews on G2 Crowd to encourage feedback development and potentially receive responses from vendors, or try SingleStore for free today to experience its benefits firsthand.

The SingleStore Forums are a valuable resource where users, developers, and employees gather to ask questions, offer support, and discuss strategies for leveraging SingleStore. The forums are organized into various topics, including announcements, feature requests, cluster operations, and more. A community of experienced users, engineers, and new contributors participate in the forums, sharing knowledge and helping each other solve problems. Users who run SingleStore for free can rely on the forums as their primary source of support, while also contributing to the community themselves. The forums have a strong impact on improving SingleStore, with real-world examples of how users have helped identify bugs, optimize queries, and provide valuable feedback to the development team. By participating in the forums, individuals can learn from each other, share knowledge, and contribute to making SingleStore better.