SingleStore announced powerful new capabilities to deliver the ever-increasing performance required for deploying AI at the enterprise level.
The range of enhancements is both broad and deep, with every improvement designed to help builders and makers “feel the flow” as they deploy AI on their most valuable data. Updates are centered around five categories:
- Ingest and data integration: By allowing customers to use SingleStore Flow within Helios and making it easy to move data to SingleStore from Snowflake, Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL, the release further strengthens the overall data integration experience known as “SingleConnect.”
- Iceberg: The bi-directional integration of SingleStore and Apache Iceberg, announced last summer, opened up new opportunities for building intelligent applications on data lakehouses. This year’s enhancements build on that ecosystem by adding a speed layer on Iceberg and offering easier and faster data exchange with Iceberg external tables.
- AI: SingleStore’s Aura Container Service (a serverless compute platform, optimized for AI and machine learning, which is designed to run containerized applications) gains the ability to host Cloud Functions, which are lambda-style serverless functions that can be used to build DataAPIs, agents or even tools for agents, as well as Inference APIs for embedding models.
- Performance at scale: Improvements boost database performance and increase scalability, including multi-value index for JSON, automatic query re-optimization and cross-workspace-group database branching and attach. Also, critical features such as database branching, point in time recovery and SmartDR are now available for GCP as well as AWS.
- Developer experience: Enhancements aimed at making life easier for developers include SQrL improvements (SingleStore’s AI powered knowledge base and query-building assistant), integration with GitHub, Notebooks scheduling and versioning, an updated billing forecasting UI, a multi-tab SQL Editor with autocomplete, easier pipeline monitoring and sequences.
“When you’re creating with AI, it’s vital to choose the right data foundation to build upon,” said Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore. “As the world’s fastest database, and the only one to natively offer single-shot retrieval of all types of data, SingleStore has always been the ultimate foundational layer for AI. Now, we’re making a quantum leap forward in performance at scale – creating a faster, smoother path to development and enabling organizations to bring their boldest, most innovative ideas to life.”
Customers that have previewed the new features are finding that the enhancements are clearing away long-standing inconveniences and impediments, enabling them to do more with their data, faster.
