MonetDB vs. SingleStore

I think for what we use it for, mainly scheduling, forecast and to compare against payroll, it works well. I think there are some other things that could be added to it to use, like more expansive ways to use the forecasting tool and an easier way to pull previous data from prior years. This would help making the forecast for scheduling in the future.

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Well-Suited Scenarios: Real-Time Analytics: Financial trading platforms requiring instant insights. Operational Dashboards: Retail businesses monitoring live sales. IoT Data Processing: Smart device monitoring with high data ingestion. Fraud Detection: Banks detect suspicious transactions instantly. Less Appropriate Scenarios: Archival Storage: Cold data storage with infrequent access. Low-Volume Workloads: Small-scale apps with minimal data processing needs. Complex ETL Pipelines: Heavy data transformations without real-time demands.

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• It is easy to use.
• You are able to input lots of data and it understands and populates information.
• Able to change settings on the fly to use with your needs.

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• Return results of complex queries scanning TBs of data in sub-seconds.
• Customer support team answer tickets quickly and provide guidance.
• MySQL engine which allows to query using simple MySQL drivers from different clients.
• Queries profiling is easy to use and helps investigating performance.

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• This is an open source software so there are obvious drawbacks, the biggest of which is a lack of documentation.
• MonetDB does not seem to be well known outside of the academic environment so there is less information when you are searching for answers of any type.
• I'd like to see more use cases and/or best practices so that commercial companies like ours can optimally use all of its highly performant features.
• The code is written in C/C++ and this can be negative if you are a mainly java-shop and need UDF - User Defined Function.

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• 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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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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[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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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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When it comes to ingestion speed, SingleStore is probably at the top. Being able to create pipelines using SQL to ingest data from S3, Kafka, and other sources, is a great advantages. This means you can dynamically ingest data by customizing your SQL queries. SingleStore pipelines are pretty sophisticated, yet very simple. Few lines of codes and you are ingesting data, while still able to perform analytical queries on your billions of row tables.

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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In depth review of how to use certain functions using the software

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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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There is a plethora of choices when it comes to NoSQL and columnar based databases. We use not one but sometimes 2 or 3 of them to carry out a specific purpose. We chose MonetDB because our engineering team enjoys working with open source software and appreciates its simplicity although becoming familiar with it did take time. I would not deploy MonetDB to production but it's a great backup option.

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Reduces database sprawl, ETL costs, infrastructure expenses, etc. Supports horizontal scaling, unlike PostgreSQL & Aurora, and real-time analytics and fast transactions (HTAP), unlike Snowflake & ClickHouse.Handles high-volume workloads with thousands of concurrent queries. No need for ETL processes, unlike BigQuery & Snowflake. Works with JSON, relational, and key-value data, unlike ClickHouse.

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Very reliable. Coming from mariadb, singlestore has made our application more reliable and faster!

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• If you are familiar with a general database concept and played with open source products before then MonetDB will give you immediate return in terms of productivity since developers can quickly develop and verify their test cases involving back-end database with a large sample data set.
• There is a stiff learning curve due to lack of documentation and sparse information available on the internet.
• Overall experience has been positive since MonetDB gives you another option when it comes to building out a data warehouse.

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• Lower operational complexity - Installation and maintenance is pretty easy
• Object scale when used can compete with Traditional Warehouse Systems like Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum
• Adds lot of value to the business like couple of operations which never worked in traditional DBMS including HANA, Oracle In Memory, SQL Server In Memory just flew in SingleStore

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