# SingleStore Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is SingleStore the right Database solution for you? Explore 39 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/143032/MemSQL/reviews --- SingleStore 4.5 (39) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/143032/MemSQL/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of SingleStore Ease of use 4.5 Customer Service 4.3 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews Tamás H Senior Software EngineerInformation Technology and Services, Self-employedUsed the software for: I used a free trial. “It was easy to use the guides, and to follow the documentations I encountered.“ April 26, 2022 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 39 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Sujay K. Sr Manager, Data Engineering - Data & AI Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Checked - One solution for Streaming Analytics on Big Data" December 27, 2019 5.0 Pros \- Super simple, we implemented the whole of our customer-facing streaming analytics data store in a 2-day hackathon - Natively integrates with AWS & other services (we are a multi-petabyte S3 shop with huge Kafka clusters) - Since most of it is SQL, anyone can hit the ground running in no-time, an ultra-low barrier to entry - We saw a sub-second response on a test case with 1000 concurrent heavy API calls (scanning billions of rows across many tables + window functions etc) along with applying RBAC functionalities on the fly - Incredibly fast out of the box, basic performance tuning will suffice 95% of use cases - Fantastic partners to work with, super helpful, we have access to their core engineering team, +100 on Customer engagement! Cons In my humble opinion, it solved a very unique hard problem for us elegantly (without having to compromise on any architectural or data principles). Problem of streaming analytics on high-velocity high volume data sets with sub-second API responses can be a handful. For me, this along with other use-cases they mention is their core strength. So anything beyond these capabilities is a "Nice to have" for me. Their roadmap covers most of what the community is asking - hot back-up's, better UI, modelling etc. Reason for choosing SingleStore All the previous solutions we tried solved either one or few of the challenges in this use-case for us. Memsql covered almost all the focus areas without having to compromise on any architectural or data principles. Review Source BV Brandon V. Data Modeler Utilities Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Thoughts on MemSQL" October 18, 2019 4.0 Our primary use case for MemSQL is an enterprise data lake, which will also serve as a staging area for MemSQL data warehouses. They are currently being developed and are not in production yet. We're learning things as we go, but in general, development is going well and we're satisfied with the product. Pros I appreciate that MemSQL is a distributed database that runs on commodity hardware and can be scaled out as opposed to some fixed, vendor-maintained appliances like Teradata. Columnstore is a valuable feature. Cons The product is not fully mature. Although it uses the MySQL protocol, it does not always work with MySQL-compliant products. Some administrative functions such as incremental, point-in-time, and object-specific backups and restore are lacking. MemSQL is making progress in these areas, but it still has room to grow. Reason for choosing SingleStore We considered NoSQL products such as Hadoop, but we wanted to leverage our existing SQL skillset. Switched from [Vantage](https://www.capterra.com/p/133231/Teradata-Database/) We're not making a full switch and retiring Teradata immediately, but we're going to use it less and MemSQL more. We've had frustrations with developing and supporting Teradata. We prefer MemSQL's DR replication and included columnstore functionality, for example. Review Source Response from SingleStore October 28, 2019 Thanks for your feedback. We work hard every day to close any feature gaps between MemSQL and the older, legacy databases. Incremental Backup lands in version 7.0, and point-in-time restore is being actively developed, and is slated to land next year. VR Verified Reviewer Software developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Single store database features and performance." August 3, 2022 3.0 I have worked with a project that based out of single store its holds like huge amounts of data and giving top notch performance for analysis and loading or transmission of data from one database to single store. Pros Single store basically is a mem-sql. Its comes with concept of shard key, partition and many more unique features that stand this out to any other relational databases. Its give a perfect SQL editor and faster query execution for sharding concept. Its store the data in either rows store or columns store based on the data set. The ease of exporting data from exiting My sql database and loading it into single store is very impressive it’s provided different kind of data loading concepts like data pipe like bloc file loading etc. Cons Some time the connection of the GUI database tools such as my sql workbench having some issues it’s required some additional configuration for it its a little headache for user.Dashboard part bit confusing its content lots pf details other then that its perfect performance wise and feather wise i can say. Review Source MSA MOHAMMAD SUFIYAN A. Senior Architect Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "SUPERSONIC DB - SUPERB" October 10, 2019 5.0 I'll rate it at a full star. Having worked with almost all the databases, I can simply say it aces every database that I worked. The Transformation capabilities in LOAD command is something I have not seen anywhere which helps a lot along with capturing errors and rejects in the LOAD command. Pros Super fast and would have give a fair bit of competition to CONCORD Aircraft:). But seriously it is the Database of the new generation with huge potential for both On Premise and Cloud. High compatibility, resilience, scalability are some superb features to work on with it. Highly recommended to any Organization wanting to get rid of the Old fashioned drag on DBs. Cons I don't have any particular dislikes, but would love to see its own Client interface, inbuilt Data Modelling capabilities and a superb front end which can help potentially any Developers or Programmers to start the development from Day 1. Secondly I would also like to see a proper Blogging web portal to help developers resolve their queries, issues faster. Switched from [Vantage](https://www.capterra.com/p/133231/Teradata-Database/) Very expensive, developers find it hard to learn and also the scalability is not at par which I have see it with MEMSQL. Review Source Response from SingleStore October 16, 2019 Supersonic is a great description. Thank you. Have you tried MemSQL Studio, the web-based SQL editor and cluster monitor? MS Manisha S. Tech Lead Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very fast" September 5, 2019 5.0 Pros fast response, perfect for real time apps Cons documentation isnot too clear about what sits in memory and what on disk. even though all our tables were made to reside on disk, we were getting lots of usage alerts, took for ever to resolve. Switched from [Elastic Stack](https://www.capterra.com/p/149304/Elasticsearch/) Faster reads and aggs and ability to query on rolling index Review Source NL Nir L. VP R&D, DevOps, and Products Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Strong, robust and fast database engine" September 20, 2023 5.0 We are using SingleStore as our main database engine both for online transaction processing (OLTP) and for data warehousing. It has proved to be a robust database engine with great performance and many useful features. Pros Singlestore is a very strong relational database management system which produces very good results in terms of speed and robustness. It have many unique features that make it a good system for data consumption and processing. It is also API -compatible with MySQL dialect so you can use mysql-targeted tools to query data on SingleStore. Cons It's not the cheapest engine you could get but generally, in terms of cost-value ratio, I feel it's a good match. Also, backup on a self-hosted solution is not always easy to implement since it needs to backup large amounts of data. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "A review of few features requested by SingleStore" April 26, 2022 5.0 Note: This review was incentivized by SingleStore. I was paid to test few features, such as: Kafka integration, Ingestion and migration features. I was requested to write an honest review here after few hours and a 1 hour seminar. Therefore I do not have any significant experience with the tool, and this is like a newcomer's first experience review. Pros I loved the simplicity in general. It was easy to use the guides, and to follow the documentations I encountered. In some cases I dug a bit deeper just to try to find some mistakes, but for example the password is not displayed if I request the system to echo back the Kafka connection details I set up. It could have been a security issue, but they were obviously aware of this and they made sure it is not possible. The specific things I liked is the ingestion speed is lightning fast. And to set up a Kafka linked table (real time message data in a table!) is as easy as it can possibly be. Cons The support. The chat is although quick and efficient, I had no issue to explain that I want a copy of the "Replicate" tool, to do similar actions that was shown on a video. The agent confirmed he understood correctly what I said, and that he needs to escalate this as I was a trial user. But of course given I was hired by them they will probably make an exception. But I was shocked that a week later I got a very generic reply and a link to an unrelated page. Like only the higher topic was understood, and all my request to have a copy of the Replicate tool was lost. I reported my disappointment towards SingleStore, and after all they are working on improving this mow. It is uncomfortable to leave this story here but necessary to understand I believe that with Support you can have hiccups and you might need to repeat yourself. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer AVP Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "MemSQL : Needs Time to Mature" September 10, 2019 3.0 This is a good software but needs to mature more for an enterprise level Pros Similar to existing RDBMS Supports join In Box implementation with Spark Salable & manageable with memSQL ops Cons Security Features Consistency Overflow on Disk Alternatives considered [Apache Cassandra](https://www.capterra.com/p/148406/Apache-Cassandra/) Reason for choosing SingleStore Cost & future roadmap Review Source Shane T. Devops Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "MemSQL-6 Administrator Training" September 10, 2019 5.0 MemSQL solves our DBMS need for fast updates to storage, alert on comp nodes and IP delivery. Pros When synchronizing permissions to child aggregators, only non-root users are affected. It has real-time processing features, and a child aggregator can be set as master if necessary. Cons If a leaf fails it takes the Matser Aggregator 10 seconds to promote the slave partitions from paired leaf. Review Source Syed Muneeb H. Lead Data Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Delivers more than expected!" April 23, 2022 5.0 The overall experience is super awesome! I would highly recommend this product for all sorts of data processing and analytical needs. The business problem that I face on day to day basis is the need for processing tons of data in minimal time to optimize the overall ETL operations and make the data available for further analysis to carry out necessary business-critical decisions. Therefore, I always feel the need to use a product that is not only easy to configure and use but also super-efficient in handling huge data volumes. Since we are progressing towards a more dynamic environment, I think we should be able to make a more robust and adaptable system that would allow systematic or data changes easy to build and configure. Pros Easy to configure and use. And on top of it, is the efficiency in which the SingleStorm delivers the results and displays the output. Cons Using SingleStorm is super easy. I have not found any shortcomings in the platform yet. Review Source MM Manav M. Software Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Amazing tool for Big Data Development" April 15, 2022 4.0 Pros Great experience with using this tool. Very fast to build Big Data Pipeline. It works without any lag. Cons Limited range of customer support. SingleStore should add several guideline steps so it can be easier for the users to use this software. Review Source MK Madhuri K. DevOps Engineer Banking Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Stream fast and Easy to Maintain." October 4, 2019 4.0 Fast for large Streaming applications and easy to setup pipelines Pros 1\. Ease of Installation 2. Upgrade procedures which support both offline and online. 3. Easy to deploy on to any cloud Cons The leaf node is associated with a id which binds it to hardware Review Source KR Kris R. sr associate Financial Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Performance SQL" October 9, 2019 4.0 good Pros easy to use.better performance. cost saving Cons not much complaints about this product. Review Source JN Joel N. Director of IT Infrastructure Oil & Energy Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best in memory SQL offering available" October 4, 2019 5.0 MemSQL has helped us enable significant business value through a simplified data lake system. Large amounts of IOT data (trillions of rows) can be queried in milliseconds. In addition business databases with processes (running on similar hardware) that took hours to run and now running sub-second on MemSQL. The path to get to where we are was not easy, but MemSQL was alongside us all the way. Pros 1\. Amazing Performance. 2. ANSI and PL SQL compatibility. Enables easy transition from traditional databases to MemSQL. 3. Highly and easily Scalable 4. Easy to setup, easy to work with. 5. Great support. Cons Lack of Incremental backups, No Failback of replications. Lack of transaction logging. Lack of recoverable snapshots. (All these are near term upcoming features in MemSQL though) Alternatives considered [MongoDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/) Reason for choosing SingleStore Simple, Legacy compatible, performance Switched from [Oracle Database](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/) Performance Review Source AQ Ahmad Q. Big Data Manager Government Administration Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best Distributed RDBMS Ever!" October 18, 2019 5.0 So far MemSQL was able to handle all types of workloads we applied to it, executing blazing fast queries against tables with real-time data ingestion. Some of the features we use and are extremely helpful are json support and full-text search, which allowed us to ingest millions of documents every day and run sophisticated dashboards against them Pros 1\. Lightening speed queries 2. High speed, high throughput, real-time data ingestion and queries. Thanks to the pipelines 3. Scale out very easily with no limit 4. In-memory tables for high OLTP workloads, and on-disk columnar storage for OLAP workloads 5. Short learning curve. drop-in replacement to the famous MySQL DB 6. Full-text search 7. Free edition is available Cons I really can't think of much here. I advise MemSQL to accelerate adding features to the MemSQL studio Reason for choosing SingleStore Achieved the highest performance, short learning path, familiar syntax, compatibility with almost all products in the market as it support MySQL wire protocol. Cost effective Excellent support team Review Source uS udayakumar S. staffware Engineer Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Good inMemory DB but not great Customer Support" September 11, 2019 4.0 Overall we like the products but some important features are lacking. Pros I like the way how it solves both being an In-memroy DB and Relational at the same time .. most of the In-Memory products are not relational. Query Response time are good. Cons Not Good customer support, Even for PROD-Sev1 issues it's difficult to get on-call representative support. Lacking Two way DB replication for DataCenters. Alternatives considered [Apache Cassandra](https://www.capterra.com/p/148406/Apache-Cassandra/) Reason for choosing SingleStore Being and In-memory Relational DB. Review Source Response from SingleStore October 7, 2019 I'd love to learn more about your support experience and escalate your concern so we can better serve users in the future. Can you reach out to community@memsql.com so we can learn more? KS Kai S. Engineering Manager Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great replacement for Hadoop for a fraction of the cost" October 9, 2019 4.0 We needed freshly aggregated stats for our realtime bidding logs. Hadoop Hive was taking over 2 hours to perform the aggregation. After migration to MemSQL we were able to aggregate the stats within 20 minutes. Pros Deployment was quick and painless. Works well with existing SQL-based data pipelines. We replaced our expensive and difficult-to-maintain Hadoop cluster with MemSQL and a fraction of the cost. Cons There were some stability issues early on with the product, however, the support team was proactive in addressing our issues and providing fixes in later releases. Synchronization with an external MySQL meta-database is not straightforward, and we had to build our own custom synchronization scripts. Review Source Response from SingleStore October 16, 2019 So glad you're getting such exceptional performance. ND Naveenraj D. Software Developer Telecommunications Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "SingleStore Data Performance" April 26, 2022 5.0 SingleStore is much useful for Real-Time data Analytic and Reporting feature and that is the key feature we looking towards Relational Database For local testing it is considerable that it consume too much memory consumption and that area is need to be improved to bring best out of it towards developer point of view. Pros It has faster query result in RDBMS platform along with high availability with the possibilities of loading data from different sources with real time data support. It has unique ingest capability to do parallel ingest of data from different sources with distributed and partition feature with M-S architecture. This standout SingleStore from others. Cons I believe it should have better User interface to support dynamic query creation along with that if it provide powerful Data virtualization options that would be nice. Review Source IV Ivan V. Systems Architect Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Horizontally scalable relational database" October 4, 2019 5.0 \- online segmentation of users - monitoring - data science Pros \- horizontally scalable relational database - huge performance win comparing to on-prem alternatives - easy to setup on k8s - easy to connect to kafka Cons \- cross data center replication requires manual intervention on failover Alternatives considered [Volt Active Data](https://www.capterra.com/p/174243/VoltDB/) Reason for choosing SingleStore Used by company competitors Review Source SkS Sanjaya kumar S. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excellent " October 4, 2019 5.0 Excellent working with Memsql database. We are within our SLA. Pros Fast query processing and child agg and master agg works super Cons Memsql ops does not work real time some times. Reason for choosing SingleStore faster query processing result and familiar with mysql client. Switched from [MySQL](https://www.capterra.com/p/11482/MySQL/) faster query processing result Review Source AA Adrian A. Senior DBA Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "i dont need the gift card :)" September 10, 2019 5.0 R&D, installation, administration, new features R&D Pros fast, reliable, stable, works perfect on Linux replication is fast and too easy to set up :) Cons geez ... I really don't know. I am really thinking of something I don't like but nothing comes to mind. I have been doing administration for ... a few good years now. Reason for choosing SingleStore Because the R&D was promising. Review Source TY Todd Y. DBA Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "memsql" October 4, 2019 4.0 good Pros Performance is good and it is a relational database Cons support is limited. there are not too many tutorial/forum etc. Alternatives considered [PostgreSQL](https://www.capterra.com/p/48791/PostgreSQL/) Reason for choosing SingleStore Reputation Review Source TS Tencza S. Cloud Recording Engineer Broadcast Media Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Software and Support" September 10, 2019 5.0 We use memsql for our DB solution for cDVR. Your support personal have been very responsive and helped us resolve our issues. Ranging from a SEV1 to a SEV3 issue. Pros Ease of use Ease of troubleshooting and upgrading Supporting Cons We have had issues with Aggregators/Leafs failing over Review Source Response from SingleStore October 7, 2019 I'm so glad you've had such a positive experience with support. VR Verified Reviewer assistant professor Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "MemSQL distributed DBMS" October 12, 2019 4.0 hardware are needed according to cluster requirements Pros faster and scalable .. it runs as a distributed cluster thats why it is faster Cons it is not free ...and not popular among users although it is useful Review Source pM prasad M. Senior Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Memsql is very good for big data development" October 4, 2019 5.0 it was a excellent experience. We were able to build big data pipelines fast. Pros fastest in memory database. We have observed that it is very fast with queries, Cons should be able to keep more data in memory and do not break. 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