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SingleStore’s Key Advantages Over PostgreSQL
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Overview | PostgreSQL | |
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Description | Built for maximum ingest, fast query, and high concurrency on a spectrum of workloads and natively supports multi-model to help you process, analyze, and act on data instantly. Available in the cloud, on Kubernetes, or on-premises. | Primarily built for transactional workloads only, and poor in handling analytical workloads. Extensible for multi-model through plug-ins. |
Database Model | Relational+ | Object-Relational |
DBaaS Offering | SingleStore Helios | Various providers |
Performance | ||
Data Ingest | Ingesting streaming data in parallel with exactly-once semantics for direct, immediate processing or raw data & events from sources such as Kafka, Spark, S3 and data formats such as Parquet, JSON, and CSV. Common batch load methods are also supported. | Common batch load methods are supported |
5 / 5 | 3 / 5 | |
Deployment | ||
Flexibility and Manageability | Effortlessly supports both on-premise and multi-cloud/hybrid cloud architectures. Leverage SingleStore as a fully managed service across cloud providers or self deploy across clouds and on-premise environments. SingleStore runs well in any environment, including bare metal, VMs, or containers through our certified Kubernetes operator. | Installation, configuration, upgrades, and cluster management tasks require humungous manual efforts from highly skilled resources. |
5 / 5 | 2 / 5 | |
Scalability | ||
Architecture | Scale-out, shared nothing distributed architecture with memory-first tiered storage design. Responds efficiently and quickly to growing workloads leveraging commodity hardware without add-ons or specialized tuning expertise. Proven with industry standard benchmarks: TPC-C, TPC-H, & TPC-DS. | Traditional 20th century single-node, disk-based architecture which has buffer cache and I/O issues such as write amplification. Does not support full query compilation or vectorized query execution, so vastly slower per core for both OLTP and analytical workloads, but especially analytical workloads. |
5 / 5 | 3 / 5 | |
Real-Time Insights | ||
Operational Analytics | Delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting and analytics across all of your operational data; including streaming, real-time, and historical data. Lock-free skiplists speeding queries on rowstore, query compilation for blazing response time, and vectorized query execution for highly-efficent use of resources resulting in greater scale and performance for combined transactional-analytical workloads. | Not capable of running analytics on rapidly changing/high velocity real-time data. Does not support full query compilation or vectorized query execution, so vastly slower per core for both OLTP and analytical workloads, but especially analytical workloads. |
5 / 5 | 1 / 5 | |
Get Started | ||
Make the Switch Today | Start for FREE at singlestore.com/cloud-trial or learn more and Book a Demo today. |
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