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SingleStore - Blazing Fast Database Service
February 27, 2024

SingleStore - Blazing Fast Database Service

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SingleStore

We use SingleStore for our various web apps. We were previously using AWS RDS which was slowing things down as we added more data and added more analytics, queries, and data enrichment tasks. Moving to SingleStore removed all of those bottlenecks.
  • Performance - from 60 to 1,000 requests/min
  • Scalability - grows as we grow
  • Processing - predictive algorithms went from taking 48 hrs down to 15 min
  • Customer Service - monthly touchpoints
  • SSO integration was initially challenging - they are already improving this
  • Cost - each tier literally doubles in price. It would be nice if there was some discounting as you go up.
  • 16x faster on requests
  • 200x faster on our heavy algos
  • Cost of SingleStore is slightly less for incredible performance gains over RDS
  • Stellar customer service
  • Significantly lower operational complexity and management
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.
SingleStore has allowed us to have a single platform for all our db needs both big and small. Previously we had a few "side" databases for little things that we didn't want to have bog things down. We also had a side db for some very complex queries and analytics that would always starve out the resources from the web apps. Now all of that is in one centrally managed place.
We were initially using AWS Aurora which worked well at the time but as we grew it just felt like a lumbering beast - even with tier upgrades. We started looking at caching & search options to help make searches faster - we were already using redis. We looked at and even implemented Elasticsearch and then ended up ditching that after about six months. For our usage, it caused more problems than it helped and had a lot of overhead and cost. We then looked at Algolia which seemed rather expensive to add on top of our current db expenses but then found the opensource meilisearch. We actually liked that quite a bit but weren't sure if we wanted to have to implement, host and maintain it. It also wasn't scalable (at that time) the way we wanted for future growth. It solved some problems but not all. SingleStore solved all these problems while essentially trading the cost almost straight across from Aurora and removed all the operating overhead in terms of maintenance. It was a no brainer.

Do you think SingleStore delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SingleStore's feature set?

Yes

Did SingleStore live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SingleStore go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SingleStore again?

Yes

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Datadog, Laravel PHP Framework
Business analytics is one of the areas where SingleStore really helped. As we implemented BI platforms, the previous DB would bog down so bad that it negatively affected our online products. Moving to SingleStore made a huge difference. General performance is amazing. We gained speed in areas we were not even expecting to the point we had to slow down or put rate limits in place to avoid duplications - something completely unexpected. The hosted service is great. We no longer have to worry about maintenance, db infrastructure or system updates which saves a significant amount of time for the IT team.