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Date Published
Author
Gary Orenstein
Word count
635
Language
English
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None

Summary

The Gartner Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit provided an opportunity for SingleStore to discuss its in-memory database capabilities with hundreds of analytics users. The company fielded questions on the comparison between SingleStore and SAP HANA, as well as integration with Hadoop. A key takeaway is that in-memory databases like SingleStore are becoming more accessible and affordable, bridging the gap between high-end solutions like HANA and scale-out approaches like Hadoop. This trend is driven by the convergence of transactions and analytics into a single system, known as Hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP). By combining all-memory and disk-based stores within a single system, companies can achieve infrastructure consolidation and low-cost expansion while still utilizing real-time data via SQL.