SSIMWAVE is a company that works with high standards in the world of video delivery systems and analytics. They need a comprehensive database to store large amounts of data and respond quickly to ad-hoc queries. After evaluating three technologies, Apache Druid, MariaDB AX, and SingleStore, SSIMWAVE chose SingleStore due to its scalability, performance, ease of setup, direct SQL query capabilities, rowstore and columnstore support, data streaming architecture support, and wide range of integrations. The company was impressed with the out-of-the-box experience and ease of use provided by SingleStore, which enabled them to deploy their service at scale quickly and smoothly. SSIMWAVE later moved to Singlestore Helios, a high-performance, elastic cloud database service that offers improved performance and cloud services with less operations effort.