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SingleStore vs SkySQL comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

SingleStore
Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Vector Databases (17th)
SkySQL
Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)
17th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category, the mindshare of SingleStore is 3.6%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SkySQL is 0.4%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Database as a Service (DBaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SingleStore3.6%
SkySQL0.4%
Other96.0%
Database as a Service (DBaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Kelvin  Ben - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
Real-time analytics has transformed daily decisions and delivers fast dashboards from streaming data
The best features SingleStore offers include fast data recovery and data compression by 80 percent. Having the information in sheets helps me to process the information quickly. Simplicity in T-SQL is another aspect I appreciate. Data recovery and sheet-based processing help my team on a day-to-day basis by enabling us to handle information efficiently. I would like to add that the data compression by 80 percent helps us in an excellent way since we are very fast in obtaining the data for our dashboards and the compression of the information is great. SingleStore has impacted my organization positively by enabling us to run low-latency analytics and model-driven use cases at scale, which is quite difficult for OLAP and OLTP databases alone. It has been very helpful because our internal clients are happy to have the data and make data-driven decisions easily. Making decisions based on data within a two-hour delay to the transactional database is excellent since we went from twenty-four hours to two hours. I think the best contribution is decision-making with data that is close to reality. Reducing that delay from twenty-four hours to two hours has significantly affected my team and business outcomes by increasing productivity. We have been able to serve all our customers, and they are very happy. We can deliver to them on time.
Shubham-Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Projects at Cognizant
Cloud database has reduced infrastructure effort and now lets us focus on clean transactional data
Currently, we have not identified significant improvement areas for SkySQL. However, enhanced AI functionality would be beneficial. We use AI in Snowflake but not in SkySQL. If SkySQL could write SQL queries automatically using AI or improve SQL query performance, this would be valuable for future use cases.When comparing SkySQL to other databases such as Databricks and Snowflake, these platforms offer more AI-related functionality and data lineage capabilities, allowing visibility of the complete data journey from source to target. SkySQL currently lacks data lineage functionality. Since we transform data using stored procedures and views, implementing data lineage functionality would help us track the complete journey of data from source through all intermediate transformation steps to the final layer. I rate SkySQL an eight out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The paramount advantage is the exceptional speed."
"The ability to store data in memory is a standout feature, enhanced by robust failover mechanisms."
"It's a distributed relational database, so it does not have a single server, it has multiple servers. Its architecture itself is fast because it has multiple nodes to distribute the workload and process large amounts of data."
"The product can automatically reinstall and reconfigure in case of a shutdown."
"SingleStore has impacted my organization positively because the output and performance of the app have been improved."
"SingleStore has impacted my organization positively by enabling us to run low-latency analytics and model-driven use cases at scale, which is quite difficult for OLAP and OLTP databases alone."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create pipelines, streamline and extract data from the pipelines."
"SingleStore is a pretty good database engine set up to handle very large loads of both transactions and data, and it is very easy to use."
"Compared with all of these options, we concluded that SkySQL is one of the best solutions addressing those criteria."
"We never face performance issues, and backup and scalability are all managed automatically, which has significantly improved our SLA."
"SkySQL is easy to use and has reliable performance, offering scalability and fast execution."
"In my experience, the best feature that SkySQL offers is a fully managed database service which reduces operational overhead, along with its high availability and automatic failover for business-critical applications, and its scalability to handle growing data volumes and overloads, plus automated backups and disaster recovery capabilities."
 

Cons

"SingleStore is very well at the current stage, but I see room for improvement in ease of administration, monitoring, and reducing troubleshooting time."
"Poor key distribution can significantly impact performance, requiring a backward approach in design rather than adding tables incrementally."
"For new customers, it's very tough to start. Their documentation isn't organized, and there's no online training available. SingleStore is working on it, but that's a major drawback."
"I have noticed that SingleStore can be improved because the integration of SingleStore with DataDog is not good."
"It is not the optimal choice for direct data collection through queries, and it's more suited for aggregation tasks."
"Having the ability to migrate servers using a single command would be extremely beneficial."
"If you are going for self-managed, you need to set up a solid backup pipeline with SingleStore support, which was my only dissatisfaction, but after doing what was needed, we have very good backup and restore pipelines running, and in Helios, everything is perfect."
"We don't get good discounts in Pakistan."
"More end-to-end deployment guides, additional reference architectures, dashboards, and more proactive performance tuning recommendations would make the platform even easier to adapt and manage."
"It is still early in our evaluation of SkySQL, so we do not have major concerns, but if anything, we would like to see even better documentation, onboarding guidance, and monitoring capabilities to make adoption and ongoing management easier."
"When comparing SkySQL to other databases such as Databricks and Snowflake, these platforms offer more AI-related functionality and data lineage capabilities, allowing visibility of the complete data journey from source to target."
"I believe one area for improvement would be more advanced monitoring and reporting features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They have two main options: cloud installation and bare-metal installation, each with different pricing models."
"SingleStore is a bit expensive."
"Using it for analytical purposes can be cost-effective in the long run, especially in terms of infrastructure."
"The product's licensing is not expensive. It is comparable."
"I would advise users to try the free 128GB version."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Insurance Company
32%
Construction Company
31%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Transportation Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Large Enterprise5
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SingleStore DB?
I cannot share much about how SingleStore is deployed due to company policy.
What needs improvement with SingleStore DB?
SingleStore is very well at the current stage, but I see room for improvement in ease of administration, monitoring, and reducing troubleshooting time. Better documentation for advanced use cases, ...
What is your primary use case for SingleStore DB?
SingleStore is our main platform for handling high-performance real-time analytics of large data volumes, providing transactional and operational data on a single platform. One specific example of ...
What needs improvement with SkySQL?
I believe one area for improvement would be more advanced monitoring and reporting features. Along with additional built-in analytics capabilities, this enhancement could provide deeper insight and...
What is your primary use case for SkySQL?
I have used SkySQL for database management, curing, and supporting data-driven applications. Our main use case for SkySQL is database management and data analytics. We use SkySQL to store, manage, ...
What advice do you have for others considering SkySQL?
SkySQL supports our compliance requirements through its security, access control, and data management features. It helps us maintain proper data governance and meet internal compliance standards. O...
 

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