HOAP databases, such as SingleStore, simplify data architecture while offering improved performance and price. These modern databases combine transaction processing and analytics processing in a single fast and responsive SQL-compliant database. They support business intelligence tools and user queries that require SQL, enabling real-time workloads like operational analytics, fraud detection, and real-time analytics powering dashboards. HOAP databases are gaining traction as digital transformation accelerates, with leaders adopting machine learning and AI, cloud resources, and intelligent personalization of online offerings. SingleStore is a charter member of the HOAP camp, delivering extreme performance, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness through its converged architecture, making it an attractive alternative to traditional OLTP-ETL-OLAP processing chains.