SingleStore has spent six years developing a fast and capable database to meet the needs of modern businesses, which require data infrastructure that can handle an increasingly broad set of requirements and scale well at scale. The company's latest release, SingleStoreDB Self-Managed 6.8, offers improved analytics performance and advanced security for Hadoop environments, while the upcoming beta release of SingleStoreDB Self-Managed 7.0 previews new transactional capabilities for system of record applications. SingleStore has demonstrated its ability to meet or beat industry benchmarks in a range of workloads, including those that require both fast ingest through transaction processing and low-latency queries for reports and dashboards. The company's database is designed to support operational analytics, which involves a specific combination of key features such as fast ingest, fast processing, and low-latency queries. SingleStoreDB Self-Managed 6.8 includes improved query performance, including a 5x speedup for certain types of queries, as well as advanced security capabilities for Hadoop environments, including Kerberos support and wire encryption.