Note: This month, we are trying a little something different with regards to the Community Star. We are starting to see that there are incredible community members beyond just the forums that are spreading the love of MemSQL and helping others out. So this month’s Community Star wasn’t picked from the MemSQL forum, but from Hacker News!
August 2019 Community Star
We are very excited and happy to announce the MemSQL Community Star for August 2019
Drum rolls please…
Congratulations Mani Gandham, CEO of Instinctive.io and Co-Founder of Privolta 
Mani G has been on our radars for awhile now, especially on Hacker News where he has amassed over 14,000 karma (
). He frequents and is active on many different threads regarding databases, especially newer NewSQL-type DBs.
Mani has many informed opinions regarding different databases, in his own words:
It’s all personal experience and research from using these database products. I’ve also talked to the devs for each one, including here on HN sometimes.
Now to why Mani is crowned the Community Star of August 2019, we’d like to thank his contributions in various HN threads praising the capabilities of MemSQL. This includes (and is not limited to):
Note: Please do not upvote the Hacker News links, as you can get both Mani and yourself banned for brigading.
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Talking about the benefits of MemSQL over TimescaleDB for large scale analytics and aggregations. HN Link.
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Talking about how MemSQL has the best support for complex SQL out of all of these and will probably run anything you send it in a TiDB thread. HN Link
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Clearing up some misunderstandings in a MemSQL 6.7 launch thread. HN Link
These are some examples of Mani’s contributions in social media regarding MemSQL, and we couldn’t be publicly acknowledge him for his help.
Keep up the great work! If you create a forum account, we will be granting you a special badge and reaching out shortly in how we will be celebrating your contributions.
Thank you so much Mani!