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So, MemSQL is a ColumnStore now? The docs didn't make that clear for me.

Anyway, why is there not a single benchmark available to support the sales-pitch?

(In your favor I'll just pretend you didn't mention kdb here...)

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In your favor I'll just pretend you didn't mention kdb here

Please explain. What's bad about kdb, besides how nonstandard it is?

There is nothing bad about it (other than the price). It just seems an outrageous claim that MemSQL, with all its constraints, is even in the same game.

At the least they should come up with some seriously impressive benchmarks before dropping names like that.

I have had the misfortune of working with Q. It's a very clever little language that could be a great platform for numerical prototyping. Unfortunately, it's hobbled by a terrible programming culture. The interpreter gives cryptic single-character error messages and the C interface is written in a nightmarish soup of macros.

MemSQL is a row store. KDB is single threaded. More benchmarks are coming!

http://kx.com/faq.php seems pretty clear that kdb is multi-threaded. "Does kdb+ support multiple cores and/or multi-threading? Yes, both are built right in to the system and this makes kdb+ extraordinarily fast when compared with traditional applications, as it can make full use of all available cores. "

This ties with my own experience using it.

I'm sorry, I have to clarify this. It's a single writer database...

Any chance you could publish full info on the benchmarks?

For example, where can we find your configurations for the MySQL vs. MemSQL benchmark you show in your video? Or how big the dataset was, etc...?

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