In a recent webinar, we shared a detailed description of SingleStore’s strengths, Oracle’s weaknesses, customer case studies, and key use cases where the SingleStore advantage shines.
The demands on databases are increasing – and legacy databases are struggling to keep up. Outdated architectures built around a single core process can’t take in data in large volumes quickly, nor respond adequately to ever-rising levels of queries – let alone handle both at the same time.
SingleStore, featuring a modern architecture, scales out to support true multiprocessing on a pool of machines, in the cloud and on-premises equally, in virtual machines and containers. This makes SingleStore responsive to modern demands such as real-time analytics on frequently updated data, IoT applications, machine learning, and AI. Customers use SingleStore for data-intensive applications in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, media and communications, healthcare, and many others.
Demands on Databases Are Rising
Databases are ever more important to businesses and as a result the types of databases and options for databases have exploded. Organizations need to move past reporting and optimizing their business with operational data and must quickly respond and predict using new innovative techniques to accelerate business performance.
Legacy databases struggle with new demands. They’re hard to scale out, expensive, and complex. They lack interoperability, full citizenship in the cloud, and DevOps friendliness.
SingleStore, on the other hand, is rightly described as “The No-Limits Database”. SingleStore supports ANSI SQL; is optimized for both structured and semi-structured data; and offers very high performance, especially through the ability to scale out a single database across multiple machines. SingleStore was built with a modern architecture to run well on both on-premises hardware and cloud infrastructure.
Most importantly, SingleStore offers breakthrough levels of performance at a lower price than competitors, giving SingleStore a very strong story in price-performance as well. One representative customer achieved 10x the performance of Oracle at one-third the cost.
SingleStore Out-Performs Oracle at Real Customer Sites
In the webinar, the hosts dive deep into a comparison between SingleStore, with its high performance and modern architecture, and Oracle, with limited performance due to its legacy architecture. Oracle often struggles when price-performance is considered – due to Oracle’s high prices and the company’s tendency to sell expensive add-ons that incrementally improve performance, while adding complexity for installation, management, and maintenance.
The hosts also introduce case studies with both named customers, such as Akamai and Verizon, and anonymized customers in energy and healthcare. These customers implement solutions in areas such as real-time financial reporting – in one case, with ultra wealthy clients who expect near-zero latency at all time – and operational analytics.
Webinar Recording and Slides
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