[noir_lord]

Given the availability of open source solutions why would I in 2018 build a critical part of my application on a closed platform?

Genuinely not intended as snark, I'm just curious why memsql is so compelling that I would consider it.

[ruw1090]

To build on the list of features above, here's a blog post from Pandora where they go into the details of what they use MemSQL for and some of the alternatives they looked into for their use case: https://engineering.pandora.com/using-memsql-at-pandora-79a8...

[dangoor]

Isn't that what the previous answer was trying to say? Paraphrasing "MemSQL has these features which we think Apache Ignite and others do not."

All things being equal, I agree that open source solutions are the best. Things are just not always equal.

[geezerjay]

> Isn't that what the previous answer was trying to say?

Truth be told, the list if features is not very compelling. I mean, JSON support is not a reason to pick a commercial dbms over a FLOSS one.

[_up]

There is also Tarantool which is another in-memory/SQL DB and is Open Source.

https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool

[_eht]

I would also like to see a response to this.