On Vector Databases. Q&A with Eric Hanson
Q1. The database market is seeing a proliferation of specialty vector databases. What is a speciality vector database then? A specialty vector database is a type of database that allows you to store and...
Category: Databases – Blog Posts
On Legacy Backup Systems. Q&A with Justin Ruiz
Q1. What are legacy backup systems? Legacy backup systems are really about data backup and data recovery. Data backup is the process of copying physical, virtual files or databases to a secondary location for...
On Ransomware. Q&A with Michael Fal
Q1. Who is at risk of Ransomware? Everyone. The unfortunate reality is that every organization, regardless of their industry or size, is a target. Ransomware can hit local drives and spread to attached devices...
On Zilliz Cloud, a Fully Managed AI-Native Vector Database. Q&A with James Luan
Zilliz, a leading vector database provider, has just launched the latest update of their fully-managed, AI-native vector database, Zilliz Cloud. This revolutionary update introduces many new features and offerings. Today, we have James Luan, Partner and Director of...
On Time Series Data And A Data Timehouse. Q&A with Ashok Reddy and Darren Coleman
Ashok Reddy: Q1. What makes time series data special? Time series data is special due to its unique properties and the specialized analytical techniques needed to handle it. Key aspects include temporal ordering and...
SQL vs NoSQL – Who owns this new era of data and why?
SQL and NoSQL are two different types of database management systems with different purposes and different characteristics. Is one of these better than the other? We asked SingleStore’s SVP of Product, Yatharth Gupta for...
On SingleStore Kai for MongoDB . Q&A with Jason Thorsness.
Q1. MongoDB is one of the most popular, widely adopted databases. What are the pros and cons of using MongoDB? MongoDB has grown to be one of the most widely-adopted NoSQL databases for JSON-like...
How a Cache Becomes a Database (And Why You Really Don’t Want This to Happen)
Are you on the right road? Adding feature after feature can create a situation where the only thing reliably stored is technical debt. BY David Rolfe There’s an old Irish joke in which a traveler...
On SQrL. Q&A with Arnaud Comet
Q1. You have launched a new feature called SQrL. What is it? SQrL is a bot we created that is trained on SingleStore specific content from documentation, to GitHub, and other sources. Engineers and others...
On Distributed SQL Databases for Disaster Management. Q&A with Andrew C. Oliver
Q1. New public outage trends suggest there will be at least 20 serious, high-profile IT outages worldwide this year (*). What are the possible consequences for companies? Ultimately, these outages are not acceptable and...