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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NGINX

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    NGINX, a business unit of F5 Networks, powers over 65% of the world's busiest websites and web applications. NGINX started out as an open source web server and reverse proxy, built to be faster and more efficient than Apache. Over the years, NGINX has built a suite of infrastructure software products o tackle some of the biggest challenges in managing high-transaction applications. NGINX offers a suite of products to form the core of what organizations need to create…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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    Pricing
    NGINXSingleStore
    Editions & Modules
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    OnDemand
    $0.69
    per hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NGINXSingleStore
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Features
    NGINXSingleStore
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of NGINX and SingleStore
    Feature
    NGINX
    8.8
    43 Ratings
    10% above category average
    SingleStore
    -
    Ratings
    IDE support8.127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security management8.638 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administration and management8.939 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application server performance9.139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Installation9.040 Ratings00 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance9.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of NGINX and SingleStore
    Feature
    NGINX
    -
    Ratings
    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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    NGINXSingleStore
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    Amazon RDS
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.3 out of 10
    SAP HANA Cloud
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Red Hat JBoss EAP
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score5.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NGINXSingleStore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (72 ratings)
    7.2
    (76 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (25 ratings)
    7.8
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (50 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (10 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NGINXSingleStore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    Nginx is well-suited for any web server scenarios, such as web applications, backend or reverse proxy for both application and HTTP requests, and distribution. It is less appropriate for Windows-based applications that run directly on a Windows Server host. In any case, it is very easy to manage, through separate conf files for each application or site you want to host with it.
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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
    F5
    • Very low memory usage. Can handle many more connections than alternatives (like Apache HTTPD) due to low overhead. (event-based architecture).
    • Great at serving static content.
    • Scales very well. Easy to host multiple Nginx servers to promote high availability.
    • Open-Source (no cost)!
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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
    F5
    • Customer support can be strangely condescending, perhaps it's a language issue?
    • I find it a little weird how the release versions used for Nginx+ aren't the same as for open source version. It can be very confusing to determine the cross-compatibility of modules, etc., because of this.
    • It seems like some (most?) modules on their own site are ancient and no longer supported, so their documentation in this area needs work.
    • It's difficult to navigate between nginx.com commercial site and customer support. They need to be integrated together.
    • I'd love to see more work done on nginx+ monitoring without requiring logging every request. I understand that many statistics can only be derived from logs, but plenty should work without that. Logging is not an option in many environments.
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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
    F5
    Great value for the product
    Incentivized
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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
    F5
    This tool is really easy to use and configure. Consumes very less system resources. It is highly modular and configurable. You can easily use it with other tools like certbot for SSLs. You can configure basic security with configuration and headers
    Incentivized
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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
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    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
    F5
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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
    F5
    Community support is great, and they've also had a presence at conferences. Overall, there is no shortage of documentation and community support. We're currently using it to serve up some WordPress sites, and configuring NGINX for this purpose is well documented.
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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
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    Would prefer in person training but for online training, it's almost as good as in person
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    Implementation Rating
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    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
    F5
    I have found that [NGINX] seems to perform better throughout the years with less issues although I've used Apache more. I would definitely recommend [NGINX] for any high volume site and I've seen this to usually be the case from most provided web hosts who will pick [NGINX] over alternatives
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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
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    Very reliable. Coming from mariadb, singlestore has made our application more reliable and faster!
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • By using Nginx, we can host multiple web services on a single server, keeping our infrastructure costs lower.
    • Nginx maintains our HTTPS connections, allowing us to keep our promise to our customers that their data is safe in transit.
    • Due to Nginx's extremely low failure rate, our web addresses always return something meaningful, even when individual services go down. In sense, this means we are "always online" and allows us to maintain brand and support our customers even in the face of catastrophe.
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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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