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My colleague in data analysis
What do you like best about the product?
MemSQL is a database that performs most of the operations in the frame compared to other commercial solutions, therefore it is also a much faster solution perfectly suited for data analysis compared to other databases. A great advantage of MemSQL is that the database is memsql compatible, making the transition very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
MemSQL is not suitable for smaller projects due to the need for a large amount of frame memory.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
MemSQL gives me the ability to analyze data faster compared to the databases we used.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I will recommend using MemSQL to companies that want to improve the speed of data exchange and scale projects.
Checked - One solution for Streaming Analytics on Big Data
What do you like best about the product?
- Super simple, we implemented the whole of our customer-facing streaming analytics data store in a 2-day hackathon
- Natively integrates with AWS & other services (we are a multi-petabyte S3 shop with huge Kafka clusters)
- Since most of it is SQL, anyone can hit the ground running in no-time, an ultra-low barrier to entry
- We saw a sub-second response on a test case with 1000 concurrent heavy API calls (scanning billions of rows across many tables + window functions etc) along with applying RBAC functionalities on the fly
- Incredibly fast out of the box, basic performance tuning will suffice 95% of use cases
- Fantastic partners to work with, super helpful, we have access to their core engineering team, +100 on Customer engagement!
- Natively integrates with AWS & other services (we are a multi-petabyte S3 shop with huge Kafka clusters)
- Since most of it is SQL, anyone can hit the ground running in no-time, an ultra-low barrier to entry
- We saw a sub-second response on a test case with 1000 concurrent heavy API calls (scanning billions of rows across many tables + window functions etc) along with applying RBAC functionalities on the fly
- Incredibly fast out of the box, basic performance tuning will suffice 95% of use cases
- Fantastic partners to work with, super helpful, we have access to their core engineering team, +100 on Customer engagement!
What do you dislike about the product?
In my humble opinion, it solved a very unique hard problem for us elegantly (without having to compromise on any architectural or data principles). Problem of streaming analytics on high-velocity high volume data sets with sub-second API responses can be a handful. For me, this along with other use-cases they mention is their core strength. So anything beyond these capabilities is a "Nice to have" for me. Their roadmap covers most of what the community is asking - hot back-up's, better UI, modelling etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Problem of streaming analytics on high-velocity, high volume data sets with sub-second API responses.
This product elegantly solves the problem.
This product elegantly solves the problem.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
They offer a free trial, definitely try - you will not be disappointed with what you see.
Incredibly fast performance for dashboards!
What do you like best about the product?
We have had excellent luck with ingest rates and the ability to do lightning fast counts and other general math on time based data sets. If you are already familiar with SQL you will have little trouble utilizing this platform. Although we have had few occasions to use it, paid support was quite responsive and helped us correct issues quickly. Toolset allows for quick builds and deployments and services have been stable over significant periods of uptime. MemSQL Ops dashboard also allows for at-a-glace view to determine if your cluster is generally healthy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although I have heard of some people have positive results, I would like to implement autoscaling with the ability to increase licensing cost only for the time a cluster is scaled. I will soon be looking into MemSQL's Helios product to see if that is a reasonable path forward for us.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
MemSQL provides the backend for our realtime dashboard and alerts system. MySQL compatibility makes it easy to import/export data to other databases when needed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For our use case of doing math on time series data MemSQL has been a great success; if you are running basic SELECT statements and expect raw data in your results we didn't see as much of a speed increase but the ease of setting up a HA cluster is a definite bonus even then.
Easy and Fast Relational DB
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to Implement
Fast
Great support with Vendor
Installation Easy
Great table features
Fast
Great support with Vendor
Installation Easy
Great table features
What do you dislike about the product?
Scaling features can be improved
Monitoring
Monitoring
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Adding more logging features and easier scalability
Introducing more queries
Introducing more queries
MemSQL hungry for memory
What do you like best about the product?
Few quires will run faster if you did everything correctly as per undocumented, unexplained MemSQL specification.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's unusable as ANSI compliant SQL server. Single and simple insert, update and delete do not work. Data can be loaded faster if it is in perfectly formatted CSV file. It frequently runs out of memory. We have 3 nodes with 2 aggregates with total of 160GB of memory and it still runs out of memory. Local Pipelines can do very less in real world scenarios.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were trying to manipulate large amount of electric meter reads and analyze our data with different scenario like area of server vs rate structures. So far it we have failed to materialize any advantage out of it.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Evaluate other alternatives.
Performance and Distributed Architecture
What do you like best about the product?
High Speed Ingest and flexible data formats
What do you dislike about the product?
None aso of now. As we drill down doc more questions will arise
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Testing huge workloads out of oracle.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go for it
MemSQL Review
What do you like best about the product?
Row-based memory storage and Column-based disk storage
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing in particular; it's just another relational database.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analytics related work in networking switch domain
Work with Memsql everyday for our platform in Kenshoo
What do you like best about the product?
The speed of queries, Kafka stream support, the easy to learn - syntax same as Mysql.
Your support is great, answer quickly on ticket.
Your support is great, answer quickly on ticket.
What do you dislike about the product?
First query run time (compilation time), not easy and clear how to analyze/improve slow query.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Slow queries in Mysql.
Memsql allow us to run all queries with no limitation on every scale of data.
Memsql allow us to run all queries with no limitation on every scale of data.
Integration - ease of use
What do you like best about the product?
Well, our engineers were extremely happy to use MemSQL to integrate a no. of data we were trying to pull together. As i understand, this product made the ride jiffy! Keep doing the great work.
What do you dislike about the product?
There was nothing specific that I can recollect we encountered while deploying memSQL. In case there was, I believe the support team was excellent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrate a no. of data we were trying to pull together. As i understand, this product made the ride jiffy! Keep doing the great work.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
N/A
Great technology
What do you like best about the product?
The queries are mostly the same as mysql so it's pretty easy to move to use memsql.
The queries runs much faster and give our users a great experience using our system.
The queries runs much faster and give our users a great experience using our system.
What do you dislike about the product?
The first loading of the queries is a bit slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Queries performance
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