Likelihood to Recommend It’s great for server less and real-time applications. It would be great for gaming and mobile apps. However, if you need relational database and have fixed budget, do not use it. While budget can be managed, you need to be careful. Also this is not a tool for storing big data, there are other wide-column database types you could use for it ins the ad
Read full review SingleStore HTAP engine is well suited for real-time analytics, fast ingestion, scaling OLTP system like
MySQL . When you need to run reports or perform aggregates on billions of rows and you get result in seconds, you cannot get this experience with other OLTP engines. I wish DBtLab was a little more developer and supported for SingleStore. This would allow to perform better data transformation. You can use stored procedures, but DBTLabs has become a standard for dimensional modeling in data warehousing projects. This is probably why SingleStore has trouble piercing in the data warehouse world. It is definately capable to compete with
Snowflake when it comes to scalability, query performance, data compression, but
Snowflake has ravaged the data warehouse market in few years and large corporations have already invested lots of money in migrating into
Snowflake . The SingleStore community needs to grow. Everyone who uses SingleStore loves it.
Read full review Pros To manage varying workloads, it enables users to increase capacity as necessary and decrease it as needed. Users can take advantage of its auto-scaling, in-memory caching, and backup without paying for the services of a database administrator. We can use it for low scale operations. Read full review Technical support is stellar -- far above and beyond anything I've experienced with any other company. When we compared SingleStore to other databases two years ago, we found SingleStore performance to be far superior. Pipeline data ingestion is exceptionally fast. The ability to combine transactional and analytical workloads without compromising performance is very impressive. Read full review Cons Cost model may not be easy to control and may lead to higher costs if not carefully planned Indexing may be a cost culprit when not planned, because it's not included on the data costs The Query Language may not fulfill everybody's expectations, as it has less features than those of competitors. Read full review We wish the product had better support for High Availability of the aggregator. Currently the indexes generated by the two different aggregators are not in the same sequential space and so our apps have more burden to deal with HA. More tools for debugging issues such as high memory usage would be good. The price was the one that kept us away from purchasing for the first few years. Now we are able to afford due to a promotion that gives it at 25% of the list price. Not sure if we'll continue after the promotion offer expires in another 2 years. Read full review Likelihood to Renew It's core to our business, we couldn't survive without it. We use it to drive everything from FTP logins to processing stories and delivering them to clients. It's reliable and easy to query from all of our pipeline services. Integration with things like
AWS Lambda makes it easy to trigger events and run code whenever something changes in the database.
Read full review We haven't seen a faster relation database. Period. Which is why we are super happy customers and will for sure renew our license.
Read full review Usability Functionally, DynamoDB has the features needed to use it. The interface is not as easy to use, which impacts its usability. Being familiar with AWS in general is helpful in understanding the interface, however it would be better if the interface more closely aligned with traditional tools for managing datastores.
Read full review [Until it is] supported on AWS ECS containers, I will reserve a higher rating for SingleStore. Right now it works well on EC2 and serves our current purpose, [but] would look forward to seeing SingleStore respond to our urge of feature in a shorter time period with high quality and security.
Read full review Reliability and Availability We have not experienced any downtime in the two years that we have been using SingleStore.
Read full review Performance It works very well across all the regions and response time is also very quick due to AWS's internal data transfer. Plus if your product requires HIPPA or some other regulations needs to be followed, you can easily replicate the DB into multiple regions and they manage all by it's own.
Read full review SingleStore's performance is incredible. Our predictive algorithms went from taking 24-48 HOURS down to 15 minutes allowing our team to run those much more frequently. Previously, we were limited to about 60 requests per minute due to table locks. Implementing columnstore on SingleStore allowed us to receive 1000 requests per minute.
Read full review Support Rating I have not had to contact support for this service, however I have had to contact AWS for other services and their support has been good.
Read full review Very responsive to trouble tickets - Often, I think, the SingleStore's monitoring systems have already alerted the engineers by the time I get around to writing a ticket (about 10 - 20 mins after we see a problem). I feel like things are escalated nicely and SingleStore takes resolving trouble tickets seriously. Also SingleStore follows up after incidents to with a post mortem and actionable takaways to improve the product. Very satisfied here.
Read full review Implementation Rating We allowed 2-3 months for a thorough evaluation. We saw pretty quickly that we were likely to pick SingleStore, so we ported some of our stored procedures to SingleStore in order to take a deeper look. Two SingleStore people worked closely with us to ensure that we did not have any blocking problems. It all went remarkably smoothly.
Read full review Alternatives Considered The only thing that can be compared to DynamoDB from the selected services can be Aurora. It is just that we use Aurora for High-Performance requirements as it can be 6 times faster than normal RDS DB. Both of them have served as well in the required scenario and we are very happy with most of the AWS services.
Read full review Timescale was the biggest alternative option we looked at for SingleStore, however the requirement to learn a new syntax (due to not being SQL compatible) was our biggest pain point. Supporting a new language would require alterations to the Laravel framework, as this only offered SQL integration out of the box. This alteration would be time consuming and would limit our scope to future hiring due to the new syntax.
Read full review Scalability I have taken one point away due to its size limits. In case the application requires queries, it becomes really complicated to read and write data. When it comes to extremely large data sets such as the case in my company, a third-party logistics company, where huge amount of data is generated on a daily basis, even though the scalability is good, it becomes difficult to manage all the data due to limits.
Read full review We needed more memory on our cluster. SingleStore handled it very smoothly.
Read full review Return on Investment Some developers see DynamoDB and try to fit problems to it, instead of picking the best solution for a given problem. This is true of any newer tool that people are trying to adopt. It has allowed us to add more scalability to some of our systems. As with any new technology there was a ramp up/rework phase as we learned best practices. Read full review As the overall performance and functionality were expanded, we are able to deliver our data much faster than before, which increases the demand for data. Metadata is available in the platform by default, like metadata on the pipelines. Also, the information schema has lots of metadata, making it easy to load our assets to the data catalog. Read full review ScreenShots Amazon DynamoDB Screenshots