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I’m surprised Timescale hasn’t given a comparison with SingleStoreDB.

I’ve found SingleStore column scans at parity with ClickHouse in speed. At same time SingleStore uses a hybrid skip-list, columnstore data structure in their universal storage (which is default table format).

So you have high throughput transactions, as well as insanely fast aggregate scans.

Usually in column stores, they are great at append, not so much with updates and deletes.



Beyond being closed source, SingleStoreDB's License explicitly prohibits benchmarking:

https://www.singlestore.com/assets/contracts/singlestore-fre...

2. Restrictions. You acknowledge that the Software, and its structure, organization, and source code, constitute SingleStore’s and its suppliers’ valuable trade secrets, and the Software is subject to the following restrictions. Specifically, Customer shall not, and shall not ... conduct any competitive analysis, publish or share with any third party any results any results of any technical evaluation or benchmark tests performed on the Software, or disclose Software features, errors or bugs to a third party without SingleStore’s prior written consent (“Benchmarking”); or


Wow. Not expected to see that in Modern Database Product.

What is the most funny though I remember them in MemSQL days showing benchmarks vs Oracle (which as I understand also has the same restriction)


Just ignore it.




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