April 2020 Summaries

SingleStore has achieved certification through Red Hat Marketplace, an open cloud marketplace that simplifies access to certified software for container-based environments. This partnership offers benefits such as reduced total cost of ownership, simplified governance, unified data processing at scale, and faster speed of application delivery. With the integration, SingleStore can be easily discovered and accessed by developers, procurement teams, and IT leaders, providing a flexible and cloud-agnostic solution that allows companies to run their workloads on-premises or in any public or private cloud with improved portability and confidence. The partnership also ensures vendor lock-in is avoided, enabling developers to build once and deploy anywhere with popular enterprise software.

SingleStore is a state-of-the-art distributed scale-out transaction processing and query execution engine that can handle large-scale analytical queries and ultra-low-latency key-value workloads. However, scaling SingleStore is a delicate manual process, requiring provisioning or moving replicas to manage backups and durability. To address these limitations, SingleStore is introducing "Bottomless," a storage and compute separation solution that stores data files in S3-like blob storage, allowing for more flexibility in clustering, backup, and disaster recovery. With Bottomless, users can scale up and down, add read replicas, and achieve low recovery time objectives, making it easier to manage workloads and reduce the need for manual intervention. Additionally, Bottomless provides a continuous backup feature, making traditional backup methods obsolete, and enables data sharing, merger-as-a-service, and ingest-pipelines-as-a-service capabilities. By separating storage and compute, Bottomless aims to provide even greater operational efficiency, workload isolation, and flexibility in managing data infrastructure, while reducing the need for multiple management layers.

SingleStore is taking a proactive approach to building global community and hope during the COVID-19 pandemic by launching the 'Virtual Hug' movement, which emphasizes the importance of human connection and care. The company is creating a sense of unity among its employees, customers, and partners through various initiatives, including an employee matching donations program and providing free database software and cloud services to universities, charities, and non-profits. By thinking beyond business and working together globally, SingleStore aims to contribute to a positive solution and deliver hope during a challenging time. The company invites individuals and organizations to join the Virtual Hug Campaign and share positivity with others.

This blog post explores file storage, configuration, and secrets in Kubernetes. It explains how to store persistent data outside of a pod using volumes, and then dives into persistent volumes and persistent volume claims, which provide a way for pods to access and manage their own storage. The post also covers configuration management, including ConfigMaps and environment variables, as well as secrets, which are encrypted at rest and can be mounted as files or used as environment variables. The author emphasizes the importance of separating configuration data between developers and operations, and provides examples and code snippets to illustrate these concepts.

The report "451 Perspective: A HOAP-ful future for hybrid operational and analytical processing" by 451 Research highlights the growing importance of Hybrid Operational and Analytical Processing (HOAP), a new type of data processing that unifies transactions and analytics. SingleStore is positioned at the forefront of this emerging category, offering a unified database that supports both rowstore and columnstore tables, joins, and other operations. HOAP has several benefits, including reducing operational complexity, eliminating latencies, and enabling real-time decision-making. The report predicts significant growth in HOAP revenue, with SingleStore playing a key role in its adoption. Different cloud vendors also offer HOAP systems, but SingleStore's fully cloud-native software and Kubernetes Operator provide a consistent experience across hybrid IT systems.