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    MariaDB Platform

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AMariaDB is an open-source relational database made by the original developers of MySQL, supported by the MariaDB Foundation and a community of developers. The community states recent additional capabilities as including clustering with Galera Cluster 4, compatibility with Oracle Database, and Temporal Data Tables, allowing one to query the data as it stood at any point in the past.N/A

    SingleStore

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASingleStore aims to enable organizations to scale from one to one million customers, handling SQL, JSON, full text and vector workloads in one unified platform.

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    MariaDB PlatformSingleStore
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    MariaDB
    Chose MariaDB Platform
    MariaDB is cheaper than Oracle Database and MSSQL server. MySQL owned by Oracle. So MariaDB has too many forks, but enough people in the community. PostgreSQL has a larger community and better administration. However, it s not like MariaDB w/ Galera. MariaDB is not good for …
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    SingleStore
    Chose SingleStore
    I still use the ones mentioned above in other use cases, and I believe SingleStore DB (formerly MemSQL)'s potential is in what it does best, in our opinion. It's ideal for massive parallel processing. CDH is good for analytics and when you want to build a report over a huge …
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    Chose SingleStore
    first of all SingleStoreis a cluster with high availability and easy to use.
    you need to design you tables / procedures such in a way that your SingleStore perform well and with handle heavy load
    Incentivized
    Chose SingleStore
    SingleStore provides performance for real-time data analytics application where as Snowflake is more for data engineers and not fast enough for real-time data analytics apps.
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    Chose SingleStore
    We selected SingleStore due to its multi cloud nature, SQL compatibility and customer references who operate similar applications as us
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    MariaDB PlatformSingleStore
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of MariaDB Platform and SingleStore
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    SingleStore
    6.9
    3 Ratings
    16% below category average
    ACID compliance00 Ratings5.93 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings7.43 Ratings
    Database locking00 Ratings6.63 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings7.43 Ratings
    Disaster recovery00 Ratings5.93 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes00 Ratings7.43 Ratings
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score5.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MariaDB PlatformSingleStore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (30 ratings)
    7.1
    (76 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
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    7.7
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    Availability
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    8.3
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    Performance
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    7.2
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    Support Rating
    8.7
    (16 ratings)
    8.2
    (10 ratings)
    Online Training
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    8.0
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    Implementation Rating
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    8.1
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    Configurability
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    8.2
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    Ease of integration
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    8.2
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    Product Scalability
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    8.2
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    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    MariaDB PlatformSingleStore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    MariaDB
    • Applications where the users need [to] execute many short queries.
    • With new storage engines such as Aria, which allows to replace MyISAM with some improvements, and XtraDB, which evolves InnoDB.
    • To fuse the legacy features with the features available in NoSQL databases.
    • Connection management, which allows multiplying the number of concurrent accesses.
    • New clustering engines, such as Galera, which allow interesting possibilities for Cloud adoption.
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    SingleStore
    Good for Applications needing instant insights on large, streaming datasets. Applications processing continuous data streams with low latency. When a multi-cloud, high-availability database is required When NOT to Use Small-scale applications with limited budgets Projects that do not require real-time analytics or distributed scaling Teams without experience in distributed databases and HTAP architectures.
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    Pros
    MariaDB
    • Simpler learning curve. MariaDB is a cleaner, simpler system that is (IMO) easier to learn and easier to manage effectively than many other database systems.
    • Lower hardware requirements. After migrating to MariaDB from another database software system, we find that our hardware needs have substantially decreased.
    • MariaDB support is very responsive. It's like they actually care. On the few occasions we've run into technical issues, support has always come through with what we needed. Once it was showing me a relatively new feature the server supported that I wasn't aware of, that, once I was able to properly make use of it helped me resolve a serious production performance issue.
    • Architectural flexibility. As an example, the ready availability of synchronous (Galera) versus asynchronous replication schemes without being locked into one of the other by enormous technical complexity or punitive licensing, allows the customer to find what really works best for their needs.
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    SingleStore
    • 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.
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    Cons
    MariaDB
    • Driver Support - Some third party applications use database drivers that cause unexplained slowness with MariaDB. This can be worked around by using the MySQL drivers, but it's not clear what causes the problem in the first place.
    • Support - While online communities are helpful in diagnosing problems, there isn't as much professional documentation/support available for MariaDB as some of the other major database options.
    • Data Visualization - It would be helpful if there were more built in options for analyzing statistics and generating reports.
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    SingleStore
    • It does not release a patch to have back porting; it just releases a new version and stops support; it's difficult to keep up to that pace.
    • Support engineers lack expertise, but they seem to be improving organically.
    • Lacks enterprise CDC capability: Change data capture (CDC) is a process that tracks and records changes made to data in a database and then delivers those changes to other systems in real time.
    • For enterprise-level backup & restore capability, we had to implement our model via Velero snapshot backup.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    MariaDB
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    SingleStore
    We haven't seen a faster relation database. Period. Which is why we are super happy customers and will for sure renew our license.
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    Usability
    MariaDB
    MariaDB is very usable and stable to be used in production settings as an alternative to MySQL. The shortcomings of SQL are present but well understood in the community, and if the decision were to be made again, I would choose MariaDB over MySQL on future projects.
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    SingleStore
    [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.
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    Reliability and Availability
    MariaDB
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    SingleStore
    Solutions are based around a business needs and even when implementing such solution, real time insights are also followed through showing the updates the business are implementing while informing the end users as what is new with technology.
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    Performance
    MariaDB
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    SingleStore
    SingleStore excels in real-time analytics and low-latency transactions, making it ideal for operational analytics and mixed workloads. Snowflake shines in batch analytics and data warehousing with strong scalability for large datasets. SingleStore offers faster data ingestion and query execution for real-time use cases, while Snowflake is better for complex analytical queries on historical data.
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    Support Rating
    MariaDB
    We have launched several inquiries to MariaDB support and they have always responded very quickly and have not been tutoring for the duration of the incident/problem.
    Likewise, they want to hold constant meetings with the client to get their opinion as well as how they can help.
    I see a very human support and concerned about the customer.
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    SingleStore
    The support deep dives into our most complexed queries and bizarre issues that sometimes only we get comparing to other clients. Our special workload (thousands of Kafka pipelines + high concurrency of queries). The response match to the priority of the request, P1 gets immediate return call. Missing features are treated, they become a client request and being added to the roadmap after internal consideration on all client needs and priority. Bugs are patched quite fast, depends on the impact and feasible temporary workarounds. There is no issue that we haven't got a proper answer, resolution or reasoning
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    Online Training
    MariaDB
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    SingleStore
    Would prefer in person training but for online training, it's almost as good as in person
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    Implementation Rating
    MariaDB
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    SingleStore
    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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    MariaDB
    MariaDB stacks up the the competition just fine. Due to is ture open source nature we do not have to worry about licencing and spending money on nothing. Moreover, MariaDB does everything that we need to get done. We can run data that is a million rows or many smaller projects on the same environment with little overhead. One of the best features that MariaDB has is the ability of backup or dump data to standard text sql statements. That was one of the reasons why we choose MariaDb because it makes backups or transferring data a snap
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    SingleStore
    Greenplum is good in handling very large amount of data. Concurrency in Greenplum was a major problem. Features available in SingleStore like Pipelines and in memory features are not available in Greenplum. Gemfire was not scaling well like SingleStore. Support of both Greenplum and Gemfire was not good. Product team did not help us much like the ones in SingleStore who helped us getting started on our first cluster very fast.
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    Scalability
    MariaDB
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    SingleStore
    Very reliable. Coming from mariadb, singlestore has made our application more reliable and faster!
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    Return on Investment
    MariaDB
    • Low CAPEX if you have a team that use open source software day by day
    • Medium OPEX if you have a team that use open source software day by day
    • Perfect to use in academic ambient to support researchers and students
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    SingleStore
    • 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.
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