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Nikita Shamgunov
Co-founder and CTO

Data Intensity4 min Read
Why We Need Management And Scalability To Benefit From The Power Of Data
This piece, which discusses the limitless potential for data and the need for chief data officers (CDOs) in progressive companies, appeared…
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Engineering1 min Read
Ways to Compute Pi in SQL
In celebration of Pi Day , I asked SingleStore’s Engineering team to come up with clever ways to compute pi in SQL. Because that’s the kind…
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Trending9 min Read
SingleStore as a Data Backbone for Machine Learning and AI
SingleStore co-founder and co-CEO Nikita Shamgunov gave the keynote address and a session talk at the AI Data Science Summit in Jerusalem…
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Product1 min Read
Helping Enterprises Derive Value from Data with Our Series D
We are thrilled to share that we raised $30 million in our Series D. This round of fundraising was led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and…
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Product2 min Read
SingleStoreDB Self-Managed 5 Ships with LLVM-based Code Generation for SQL Queries
We are proud to announce general availability for SingleStoreDB Self-Managed 5 today. A key milestone in this release is a full fledged SQL…
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Engineering2 min Read
Turn Up the Volume With High-Speed Counters
Scaling tends to make even simple things, like counting, seem difficult. In the past, businesses used specialized databases for particular…
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Engineering1 min Read
SingleStore Does Oracle’s Own Demo Ten Times As Fast, Sixty Times Cheaper
In preparation for Open World, I asked some of our engineers to recreate a demo that Oracle has been using over the last year to show off…
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Engineering1 min Read
Announcing SingleStore Start[c]up 2.0
SingleStore is excited to announce Start [ c ] up 2.0 – the second annual programming competition hosted by Codeforces with an onsite at…
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Product1 min Read
Unsexy Database Features That Matter: Part 2
In the previous post , we talked about how you should focus on how people derive value from your product. Today we will focus on database…
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Product2 min Read
Unsexy Database Features That Matter: Part 1
As enterprise customers start to use your product in many different ways, new feature requests will start to flow into the product team…
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Product2 min Read
Oracle Announces an In-Memory Technology, At an Ungodly Speed…And Cost
Oracle OpenWorld started yesterday, and Larry Ellison announced new in-memory options in Oracle 12c. According to PCWeek “The Big Memory…
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Engineering1 min Read
Celebrating the SingleStore start[c]up Finals
This weekend SingleStore challenged some of the world’s best computer programmers in the finals of the inaugural SingleStore start [ c ] up…
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Engineering1 min Read
Google’s Code Jam World Finals – Two Senior SingleStore Engineers Make Top 25
SingleStore is proud to announce that David Stolp (Pieguy) and Nika Jimsheleishvili (nika) are on their way to Google’s London office to…
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Engineering1 min Read
Announcing start[c]up
SingleStore is excited to announce start [ c ] up – a programming competition, hosted by Codeforces with an onsite at SingleStore HQ in…
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Engineering6 min Read
Practical Techniques to Achieve Quality in Large Software Projects
High quality is hard to achieve and very expensive, but it’s worth every penny and must be taken extremely seriously. There is no silver…
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Engineering3 min Read
Where Should TopCoders Work. One Year Later.
A little over a year ago we published a blog post “ Where Should Top Coders Work? ”. In a few weeks we were approached by topcoder.com and…
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Engineering2 min Read
SingleStore: My First *Real* Startup Experience
This is reposted from Momchil Tomov’s blog . Momchil was part of the first summer batch of SingleStore Interns. After seemingly stumbling…
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Engineering1 min Read
Excellent Post On SingleStore Architecture
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/8/14/memsql-architecture-the-fast-mvcc-inmem-lockfree-codegen-and.html
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Engineering2 min Read
Loading half a billion records in 40 minutes
Disclaimer. This will not be an apples to apples comparison with derwik, since we obviously don’t have the same dataset, and we need a much…
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Engineering3 min Read
Where Should Top Coders Work?
My career as a software engineer really began when I won a medal at the ACM ICPC programming contest in 2001. To place in the tournament, I…
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