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SingleStore
Company blog · singlestore.com/blogdataprogramming
SingleStore is the company blog at singlestore.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2020, 36 different Hacker News readers have linked it 162 times, most often “SingleStore TPC-C and TPC-H benchmark results”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (24) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite SingleStore's blog as a technical reference on columnstores, skiplists, JSON handling, HTAP and benchmarks. None of the comments judge the posts' quality.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 24 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
SingleStore is the real-time database for AI, apps and analytics. Build intelligent experiences with live reads and writes, one engine for transactions and analytics, and open data access.
Most-linked posts?
- SingleStore TPC-C and TPC-H benchmark results4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-01-20
- SingleStore’s Skiplist Indexes (2014)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-08
- /blog/category/engineering/2 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2021-04-01
- Learnings from Snowflake and Aurora: Separating Storage and Compute2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-09-15
- Moving Away from Next.js2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-24
- Why Your Vector Database Should Not Be a Vector Database2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-25
- We made a sustainable free tier for SingleStore2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-15
- Toward more efficient and inclusive work with asynchronous communication2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-04
- AVX512/VBMI2: A Programmer’s Perspective2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-14
- We Designed and Built Our Free Shared Tier2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-11
What Hacker News says?
SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | Lisbon (Portugal), San Francisco and Seattle | Full Time SingleStore is a database startup focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the fortune 100. You can read all about our product here: https://singlestore.com/product . Right now, we are in the proces…
Comment linking /careers/jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted How we made Jupyter notebooks load faster as a story · 159 points
HN discussionSingleStoreDB (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | Lisbon (Portugal), San Francisco (US), London (UK), Raleigh (NC), and Seattle (US) | Full Time | Remote SingleStoreDB is a database focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the Fortune 100. Our product is a distributed, relational database that handles…
Comment linking /blog/category/engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted AVX512/VBMI2: A Programmer’s Perspective as a story · 98 points
HN discussionSingleStoreDB (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | India, Portugal | Full Time | Remote SingleStoreDB is a database focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the Fortune 100. Our product is a distributed, relational database that handles both transactions and real-time analytics at scale. Querying is don…
Comment linking /blog/category/engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)”Submitted SingleStore’s Skiplist Indexes (2014) as a story · 43 points
HN discussionApril 2021 SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | Lisbon (Portugal), San Francisco and Seattle | Full Time SingleStore is a database startup focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the fortune 100. You can read all about our product here: https://singlestore.com/product . Right now, we are in…
Comment linking /blog/category/engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted We built a real-time RAG system as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSingleStore (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | Lisbon (Portugal), San Francisco and Seattle | Full Time SingleStore is a database startup focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the fortune 100. You can read all about our product here: https://singlestore.com/product . Right now, we are in the proces…
Comment linking /careers/jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”Submitted SingleStore TPC-C and TPC-H benchmark results as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSingleStoreDB (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | India, Portugal | Full Time | Remote SingleStoreDB is a database focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the Fortune 100. Our product is a distributed, relational database that handles both transactions and real-time analytics at scale. Querying is don…
Comment linking /blog/category/engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)”Submitted We Migrated Our Local Environment from MinIO to LocalStack as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSingleStore (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | Lisbon (Portugal), San Francisco, London (UK), Raleigh (NC), and Seattle | Full Time | Remote SingleStore is a database startup focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the fortune 100. You can read all about our product here: https://singlestore.com/prod…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Submitted Effortless Database Migration with DrizzleORM as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSingleStore (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | Lisbon (Portugal), San Francisco (US), London (UK), Raleigh (NC), and Seattle (US) | Full Time | Remote SingleStore is a database startup focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the Fortune 100. Our product is a distributed, relational database that hand…
Comment linking /blog/category/engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted We Designed and Built Our Free Shared Tier as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSingleStore (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | Lisbon (Portugal), San Francisco, London (UK), Raleigh (NC), and Seattle | Full Time | Remote SingleStore is a database startup focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the fortune 100. You can read all about our product here: https://singlestore.com/prod…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted Why Your Vector Database Should Not Be a Vector Database as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSinglestore has been doing json -> column expansion for a while as well. https://www.singlestore.com/blog/json-builtins-over-columnst... For a colstore database, dealing with json as strings is a big perf hit.
Comment linking /blog/json-builtins-over-columnstore/
on “A new JSON data type for ClickHouse”Submitted Moving Away from Next.js as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSingleStore (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | Lisbon (Portugal), San Francisco, London (UK), Raleigh (NC), and Seattle | Full Time | Remote SingleStore is a database startup focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the fortune 100. You can read all about our product here: https://singlestore.com/prod…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)”Submitted An Engineer's Guide to Building a Database for Data-Intensive Applications as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSingleStore (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | Lisbon (Portugal), San Francisco and Seattle | Full Time SingleStore is a database startup focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the fortune 100. You can read all about our product here: https://singlestore.com/product . Right now, we are in the proces…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”Submitted Moving Away from Next.js as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAugust 2021 SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | Lisbon (Portugal), San Francisco, London (UK), Raleigh (NC), and Seattle | Full Time | Remote SingleStore is a database startup focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the fortune 100. You can read all about our product here: https://singlest…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)”Submitted How We Made SingleStore Helios' Command-K Search More Than 5x Faster as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSingleStore (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | Lisbon (Portugal), San Francisco, London (UK), Raleigh (NC), and Seattle | Full Time | Remote SingleStore is a database startup focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the fortune 100. You can read all about our product here: https://singlestore.com/prod…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”Submitted Optimizing Our Keycloak Theme's Bundle Size: A Deep Dive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSingleStoreDB (formerly MemSQL) ( https://singlestore.com ) | Lisbon (Portugal), San Francisco (US), London (UK), Raleigh (NC), and Seattle (US) | Full Time | Remote SingleStoreDB is a database focused on high performance and hybrid workloads (HTAP). Our customers include half of the top 10 US banks, 2 of the top 3 US telcos, and 12% of the Fortune 100. Our product is a distributed, relational database that handles…
Comment linking /blog/category/engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)”Submitted Flexible Parallelism in SingleStoreDB as a story · 3 points
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