SingleStore is an adaptable database designed for real-time applications that combine transactions and analytics in a single high-performance platform. It provides fast data ingestion with low latency, serving large numbers of simultaneous users. SingleStore leverages both memory and disk for optimal performance, automatically partitions data for distributed ACID consistency, and supports various development IDEs. The database can replace traditional workloads and reduce costs by utilizing industry-standard hardware, making it suitable for petabyte-scale data querying. However, storing large images or binary objects may require object stores like S3, and the DBA must manually manage data transfer between row store and column store. SingleStore offers a free developer edition with unlimited scale, supports JDBC and ODBC connectivity, and can run on any cloud platform or on-premises.