Company
Date Published
Author
Spandana Rachamadugu, Ryan Yoshida
Word count
917
Language
English
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None

Summary

SingleStore has announced significant improvements across its latest product release, focusing on JSON analytics and delivering more efficient, faster aggregations over JSON arrays. This enhancement aims to match the performance of JSON columns with any top-level column, utilizing vectorized execution and CPU vector instructions like SIMD to accelerate processing. A test using the TPC-H dataset demonstrated substantial performance gains, with queries involving JSON array aggregation showing improvements of up to 18 times faster execution time compared to before optimization. SingleStore's new optimizations enable faster, more responsive analytics over JSON data, particularly when dealing with complex data structures and arrays, offering a convenient method for managing such data and opening up possibilities for advanced analytics.