# Page 2 | SingleStore Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - 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 June 3rd, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of SingleStore ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-39 of 39 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use JK Jung K. Data Infra engineer Internet Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best of the both world, row and col" October 4, 2019 5.0 Performance justifies expensive license cost Pros You can seamlessly join both row and columnar tables and query across it Cons Deployment script is bit challenging and need more custom works Reason for choosing SingleStore none of them either failed our read query latency tests, write throughput tests, or went over the cost of legacy solution Review Source TO Thelma O. Data Engineer Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "My SingleStore Experience" April 26, 2022 5.0 I used SingleStore to migrate my data from MySQL in AWS into the system and I had a very good experience in achieving that as it was very easy to achieve and the performance is great. Pros The system has great performance It ensure ease of data migration It is very wasy to use It is cost effective Cons The company has a great product but they really need to work harder to break into the market in order to be recognize and be part of the market leaders. Review Source DV Dana V. QA Lead Banking Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great performacne improvment and great team to work with " October 9, 2019 5.0 Pros The performance of this db its is amazing. The team assigned to our project did a great work by migrating a huge system in a short period of time Cons Since it is a new system that we are implementing as of now...I do not have "dislike". Review Source VG Vihari G. Data Scientist Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "MemSQL " September 18, 2019 5.0 Amazing learning experience working with MemSQL, user friendly and easy to learn and understand. Made our lives much easier. Pros Performance and fairly easy to understand. Cons None actually. But sometimes support tickets take some time to be resolved but apart from that everything is great. Review Source uM udaneshwara M. Data Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Excellent and user friendly" October 10, 2019 4.0 Pros Fast Accessing and data fetch and reliable Cons none.. don't have any con's as of now... Review Source SS Sathwik S. Data Engineer Security and Investigations Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Gets the job done" September 10, 2019 5.0 The on-boarding was very smooth. The sales team is always ready to answer any question you have and they don't hesitate to involve their Engineers if you ask for more technical details. Pros If you are looking for something for real time analytics/dashboard this is the go-to option. We tried out lot of other technologies/tools and nothing seemed to be meeting the expectations when it comes to concurrent loads and data latency. Cons No Support for directly reading out of S3 files. Review Source Response from SingleStore October 7, 2019 A Quickstart tutorial for pulling data directly out of S3 files is at https://docs.memsql.com/v6.8/concepts/pipelines/s3-pipelines-quickstart/ How can we make this documentation more discoverable? PN Praveen N. Sr. Technology Leader Telecommunications Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great product. Could be better at performance" October 4, 2019 4.0 Overall experience has been good and with good engineering principles, I'm sure MemSQL can overcome the performance challenges and can be a force to reckon with. Pros good product with good core competencies - scalable SQL database designed for transactional and analytical workloads, consistency durability etc Cons Performance challenges for in-Memory Database. Alternatives considered [MongoDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/)[Couchbase Server](https://www.capterra.com/p/132494/Couchbase-Server/)[Apache Cassandra](https://www.capterra.com/p/148406/Apache-Cassandra/) Reason for choosing SingleStore Price points and durability Review Source VK Vipen K. DBA Telecommunications Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "SingleStore should be considered as a DB option" April 26, 2022 5.0 It is worth considering a POC if you are looking for a new DB to choose from. Pros Building pipelines, Concurrent data loading & large data processing at the nodes level (sharding). Analytics, fast data loading, nice SQL Editor. Cons I found issues connecting MySQL client tools. Review Source OB Omer B. Software engineer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great product" September 5, 2019 4.0 Pros The similarity to mySql and the ocerall quickness of the queries Cons Slow queries with temp table. Need to change every query in mysql that contain temp table to subQuery. Review Source Response from SingleStore October 7, 2019 I'm so glad you're enjoying the speed of MemSQL. Temp table performance is unexpected. Can you reach out to community@memsql.com so we can learn more about your scenario and help you achieve amazing results here too? VR Verified Reviewer Systems Engineer Defense & Space Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Recommend that you try this software" September 10, 2019 4.0 Pros Speed of setup and speed of operation, and it runs on Linux. Cons We are still learning about this software, and haven't encountered problems yet, but it is in early evaluation stages. Review Source BL Bryan L. Data Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Fast Database with a bit of work" September 11, 2019 5.0 Overall once you get a good understanding of how to structure your data than you can gain the full performance from memsql Pros If you understand how to structure your data and where to store it within the database then you can get some great performance. Cons I found they weren't completely transparent on how to structure data but once you understand that you can get great performance Review Source Response from SingleStore October 7, 2019 I'm glad you've found the performance you need here. What concepts were difficult to understand at first? How can we improve our docs? Reach out to community@memsql.com. We'd love to learn more about your experience. SM Sham M. VP;Architect Banking Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Good" September 10, 2019 4.0 Good Pros User friendly, fast, reliable , Stable, consistent Cons installation, set up, configuration and documentation Review Source HG Hema G. Software Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Product quality" September 5, 2019 4.0 Pros More scalability and easy to operate this product Cons Price may be the least cons for this product Review Source CP Christine P. Analyst Consumer Electronics Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Great functionality" October 9, 2019 5.0 Pros I really like how it's user friendly and modern Cons It's a little complex to navigate through Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.