--- title: SingleStore Reviews meta\_title: 'SingleStore Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 118 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SingleStore works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 118 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # SingleStore Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by SingleStore but has limited features. Are you part of the SingleStore team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! SingleStore enables organizations to scale from one to one million customers, handling SQL, JSON, full text and vector workloads — all in one unified platform. * * * Seller [SingleStore](https://www.g2.com/sellers/singlestore) Discussions [SingleStore Community](https://www.g2.com/products/singlestore/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Jeff Cotrupe Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Return on Investment 21 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/singlestore/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![CockroachDB](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "CockroachDB") CockroachDB 4.3/5(29) ](https://www.g2.com/products/cockroachdb/reviews) [ ![PostgreSQL](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "PostgreSQL") PostgreSQL 4.4/5(684) ](https://www.g2.com/products/postgresql/reviews) [ ![MySQL](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MySQL") MySQL 4.4/5(1,682) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mysql/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/singlestore/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 118 real user reviews. Implementation Time 4 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Matt N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Matt N.") MN Matt N. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/4/2024 "Great near real-time analytics database" 4.5/5 What do you like best about SingleStore? I have had a great experience using SingleStore. It can ingest massive amounts of change events from Kafka and keep up. It ingests this data within 3-5 seconds of update in our main application. Most of the queries we send to SingleStore come back within 5 seconds and work well with highly concurrent (thousands of customers) environments. For providing customer-facing dashboards and reporting, it is really fast and everything I expect. It also has a great ecosystem with its managed service running in AWS, Azure, and GCP, with support for customer-managed keys and other enterprise features we need. It also has cool newer features like database branching and fast JSON queries (it treats JSON like any other columnar data). It is like a really fast version of Snowflake or Databricks. It is easy to get up and going with SingleStore pipelines (no external tools like Kafka Connect or Apache Flink are required since they have SingleStore pipelines), and customer support is great too when I wasn't able to figure it out on my own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SingleStore? It isn't open source, which I prefer. Despite being proprietary, they do make it fairly easy to use their free version on Docker or their managed free forever solution (but quite limited). The sales/procurement process can be a bit onerous too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SingleStore solving and how is that benefiting you? Faster ingest and query speed than most competing products. This results in a better user experience for our customers since they are often creating ad-hoc dashboards in our product and expect the experience to be snappy. As they are building new charts, reports, and dashboards, they iterate through different versions and tweak the settings, and each time they do this, they want the queries to come back within a second or two. Then, when they have 5-10 widgets on a dashboard, they expect those to come back within a couple of seconds. This great experience enables us to democratize reporting for our users and are delighted with our work management product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Satwik L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Satwik L.") SL Satwik L. Freelancer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/12/2024 "Singlestore is best in market compared to Google's Bigquery" 5/5 What do you like best about SingleStore? I like the scalability, versatililty in the product with architecture itself which can be used for multi models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SingleStore? I feel singlestore is not beginner friendly as early stage developer in AI era. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SingleStore solving and how is that benefiting you? SingleStore is best when I am creating saas applications for modern scaling architecture, multitenancy and easily customisable products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite AM Abel M. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/1/2024 "Successfull Co-Innovation Partnership" 5/5 What do you like best about SingleStore? Query and Ingestion Speed at Scale over Multi-Model Storage w/ Simplicity . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SingleStore? Medium UX for Self-Hosted versions and medium materialization features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SingleStore solving and how is that benefiting you? Chatbot, Customer Mobile Banking RT Analytics , Customer Intelligence for RT decision (multiple scenarios) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/8/2024 "Database that changed our company" 4.5/5 What do you like best about SingleStore? Singlestore has made our data processing much easier and faster with its tooling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SingleStore? Pipelines can be slow and there's not very many logs around them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SingleStore solving and how is that benefiting you? Data Processing -\> makes cleaning & processing data easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Franck L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Franck L.") FL Franck L. Data-Sleek Founder Consumer Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/1/2022 "Singlestore Power of Analytics" 5/5 What do you like best about SingleStore? Singlestore is a MySQL drop-in solution. It supports Mysql Protocol. This database cluster solution allows you to scale horizontally and also vertically. You can add aggregators to scale high concurrency or leaf nodes to shard your data (Singlestore can rebalance the data with just 1 SQL command). Singlestore supports a fast array of analytical functions. You can also ingest data from their pipeline feature. Using SQL, you can create pipelines to connect to S3, Kafka, HDFS, Azure, and more and consume data in real-time without locking tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SingleStore? There are some limitations. You cannot use Foreign Keys (FK). Modifying clustered keys is not supported. Altering tables also has some limitations. Auto-incremental values are not always sequentials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SingleStore solving and how is that benefiting you? Real-time or near real-time analytics. Singlestore can ingest data using pipelines via tables or stored procedures. The non-lock mechanism allows users to query tables in real-time. Singlestore columnstore engine provides excellent compression (up to 80-90%), and aggregated queries just fly ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Charlie J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Charlie J.") CJ Charlie J. Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/10/2022 "The Best All-in-One Database Solution" 5/5 What do you like best about SingleStore? I love how I'm able to use one database for transactional data (like storing users, and any associated data) alongside analytical data (like mass querying records). Every other solution I looked at required me to maintain 2 seperate databases, certainly not ideal in any means.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SingleStore? Their managed solution starts out hefty, and I do wish they had cheaper options available. However they have a fantastic self-hosted version, which means there is no downsides to SingleStore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SingleStore solving and how is that benefiting you? Being able to use one centralised database for both types of data, saves me a ton of headache while also harnessing out of the box performance gains with SingleStore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Jeff Cotrupe of SingleStore [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/singlestore-review-7344961/official_response/edit) Charlie Joseph is an innovator and leader in leveraging real-time data to deliver amazing user experiences and build his business. We are proud to be supporting Analyse, the world's go-to-solution for Minecraft analytics, and excited to see Charlie continually taking his rapidly-growing company to the next level! Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Herman S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Herman S.") HS Herman S. Lead Data ETL / ML Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/25/2022 "Amazing Experience - Really great product and support" 5/5 What do you like best about SingleStore? I really enjoyed using the SingleStore website! I found the tutorial and UI to be very clean and easy to use. The tutorial was helpful as well to some extent. The blogs/tutorials you guys write I think are instrumental in helping new users use your platform and follow along. More on this in another question. In terms of product, I liked being able to visualize the different parts of the node aggregation and seeing how the data was being inserted as well as its speed. I think being able to visualize the nodes working together was helpful in seeing the data being moved from one location to another. I think this is helpful in understanding where the costs are going as well, and what steps I can take in order to reduce cost while not hurting performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SingleStore? Not too much - I disliked the tutorials/documentation surrounding the work (to some extent). They were slightly different than what I actually needed to do (according to the Upwork specs). I think tutorials are a vital way to onboard new people to the platform. Making sure that each step is perfectly clear and identical (or near identical) to what needs to be done is important since having the first-impression onboarding process be as frictionless as possible will really set a positive tone for using your service more. As a developer, clear documentation is everything! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SingleStore solving and how is that benefiting you? I think investing in good architectures and solutions early on is critical. Once certain infrastructure and processes are in place, it becomes more difficult to switch down the line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Michael Z.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Michael Z.") MZ Michael Z. Chief Technology Officer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/15/2022 "Wicked fast and easy to use database" 4.5/5 What do you like best about SingleStore? Easy to build pipelines, fast migration path from mysql, easy to learn and understand how it works. Benefits of a rowstore and speed of a columnstore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SingleStore? Backups do not work well- we have had several issues with these. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SingleStore solving and how is that benefiting you? Allows very fast ingestion of 300M digital asset exchange trades daily so we can create real-time prices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") UB Verified User in Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/14/2022 "High performance database ingestion for OLTP and OLAP" 5/5 What do you like best about SingleStore? - I have been using Microsoft SQL Server and related tools for more than 11 years. - UI is minimal and slick. Mostly, I have used SSMS and Visual studio to access the databases. There will be lot of options in SSMS/Visual studio but we wont be using most of them and it will be confusing. I like SingleStore's minimal UI. - UI options are easy to understand and navigate. - Setting up a cluster with S-16, 128 vCPU and 1 TB RAM took less than 3 minute. - Literally with 5 min, I was able to sign up and start using the database. - Guided tutorial was helpful based on what we want to achieve. - Setting up a pipeline and starting it from SQL is very nice and handy. - In a traditional setup, I would have used SSIS, ADF, Informatica or some other ETL to build the pipeline and then load the data. - It is a time consuming process to build the ETL packages and maintaining the same. - Literally, with just two sql command I can create and start the pipeline. I like this approach so much. - It is super fast in processing the very large volume of data. I have loaded 100B records in 40 minutes. The configuration I was using was S-16, 128 vCPU and 1TB RAM. The CSV file is AWS us-east region and I spun up a maching in Azure Netherlands region. This could be the reason it took 40 min. Otherwise it would have been even faster it was in same availability group. - In Microsoft SQL Server, I would have used BULK INSERT to load the CSV file. Most of the time, it was painful to do it if the size of the file is huge (more then 2GB). I will be getting out of memory error due to maching config. Then I go and split the file into several chunk and then try to load. It was never a good experience for me. But, with singlestore, all I need was two commands to create and start the pipeline. I like this. I like how SingleStore can be used for different types of data load like streaming and batch data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SingleStore? - Monitoring section was somewhat confusing for me. - I was trying to see which query is running, but it was asking to start profiling. - I was not clear whether we have to start profiling to check the active queries and node details. - Even if we need to start profiling, to check the node details was not making sense to me. We should be able to see the nodes details and what is going on. - I did not know what to do in Monitoring section. So I started the profiling. The options were not clear for me. I have selected custom timeframe 60 min. I was under the impression that the profiling will run for 60 min in the background and I can see the active queries and node details. That could have been better or it could have been communicated to the user better. - I prefer to access and manage the database from the desktop application. I did not find any desktop application provided by SingleStore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SingleStore solving and how is that benefiting you? Loading huge volume of data like 100 billion records in 40 minutes with S-16 cluster, 128 vCPU and 1TB RAM. This will be a huge time saver and can produce the reports almost near time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/17/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![MUHAMMAD W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MUHAMMAD W.") MW MUHAMMAD W. Data Analyst (BI Engineer) Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/9/2022 "Excellent experience with this product." 4.5/5 What do you like best about SingleStore? We can handle large dataset analysis. Singlestore provides us with the capability to do so at incredible speed. I can confidently say that organizations should move to SingleStore database. Also provides the facility for heterogeneous databases connectivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SingleStore? I had some issues with configuration and docker that took too much time to create an environment, but customer support helped me through it. But it's really great after that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SingleStore: SingleStore should have some certifications like Microsoft Azure, IBM, etc so that developers can be able able to pass that and upgrade their profile also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SingleStore solving and how is that benefiting you? SingleStore’s unified database facilitates fast-paced analytics for organizations looking to embrace diverse data and accelerate their innovations. SingleStore is currently the only database in the industry that addresses both analytical and transactional workloads for the multi-cloud world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/30/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about SingleStore? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about SingleStore ](https://www.g2.com/products/singlestore/discussions/new) ![Samvida P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Samvida P.") SP Samvida Pathak • Last activity over 3 years ago Is there provisin forthe software to be open source or will this be only following a Pay for Services model? 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-there-provisin-forthe-software-to-be-open-source-or-will-this-be-only-following-a-pay-for-services-model) GU Guest User What are the benefits and drawbacks of using SingleStore for database management? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-benefits-and-drawbacks-of-using-singlestore-for-database-management) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/singlestore/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Return on Investment 21 months ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/singlestore/pricing) SingleStore Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_2b00e05c107c3273cea5264090c3c1d0/snowflake.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Snowflake 4.6/5(764) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/singlestore-vs-snowflake) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_cee19035e959576dd35e1ad8c03f4a97/cockroachdb.png "Product Avatar Image") CockroachDB 4.3/5(29) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/cockroachdb-vs-singlestore) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_251be2af3ae607c45c14e816eaa1cf41/postgresql.png "Product Avatar Image") PostgreSQL 4.4/5(684) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/postgresql-vs-singlestore) ##### ##### SingleStore Features Database Features Storage Availability Stability Support Text Search Data Types Performance Workload Management Advanced Indexing Query Optimizer Management Data Schema Query Language ACID - Complaint [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/singlestore/features) ##### Categories on G2 [Relational Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/relational-databases)[Vector Database](https://www.g2.com/categories/vector-database)[Real-time Analytic Database](https://www.g2.com/categories/real-time-analytic-database) ##### Explore More [What bot platform handles the handoff from chatbot to a live human agent well without the customer having to repeat themselves?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/bot-platforms-what-bot-platform-handles-the-handoff-from-chatbot-to-a-live-human-agent-well-without-the-customer-ha)[Which rebate management systems are most trusted by procurement teams, based on user reviews?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-rebate-management-systems-are-most-trusted-by-procurement-teams-based-on-user-reviews)[What's the best CPQ software with custom pricing features](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-s-the-best-cpq-software-with-custom-pricing-features) [IBM Consulting vs Capgemini vs HP Enterprise Consulting for enterprise mobility: which mobility consulting firm provides the best risk assessment and vendor selection support for regulated industries?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/ibm-consulting-vs-capgemini-vs-hp-enterprise-consulting-for-enterprise-mobility-which-mobility-consulting-firm-provides-the-best-risk-assessment-and-vendor-selection-support-for-regulated-industries)[Which supplier risk management app is best for handling third-party risks](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-supplier-risk-management-app-is-best-for-handling-third-party-risks)[Which fleet management platforms can a team get live quickly without a long implementation process or relying on IT the whole way through?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-fleet-management-platforms-can-a-team-get-live-quickly-without-a-long-implementation-process-or-relying-on-it-the-whole-way-through) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)