SingleStore - Blazing Fast Database Service

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.