Today, SingleStore is releasing its latest version of the SingleStoreDB Self-Managed 5 Beta, marking a significant milestone in the company's 5-year journey. This release aligns with the company's focus on building an enterprise-ready distributed database that delivers real-time analytics to a broad market while maintaining maturity and functionality. With this beta release, SingleStore aims to improve its support for SQL operations, query optimization, columnstore query execution, detailed table and query statistics, and build modern database applications with high-volume transactional workloads, data warehouses with live data, and real-time data pipelines using Apache Kafka and Spark. The company also emphasizes the security, robustness, and performance of this release, inviting users to share their feedback to help improve future versions.