[loopp]

Disclaimer: I am a product manager at MemSQL, so I may be biased :)

There are a variety of ways to try out MemSQL yourself such as installing on Linux, Windows, Mac, AWS, etc, and maybe I am biased since I was an engineer before I became a PM, but we optimize our product currently exactly for technical people such as IT, devops, and of course, engineers. For a list of installation guides, check this link out: https://docs.memsql.com/guides/latest/install-memsql/

Take a look at our docs (docs.memsql.com) and you will see that we all actually are just a bunch of engineers and people with a technical background. Are there certain technical topics you feel are unclear here? I'm also happy to chat privately.

If you still feel this product isn't right for you, that is fine -- MemSQL's focus on query speed may not be for everyone. However, with this release of having a free product for people to try out, we definitely optimized exactly for people that want to try the product out :). I'm actually surprised you mention our product isn't for engineers/technicalPeople, because from our field of view, we actually sometimes see MemSQL as too technical, hence why we focused on usability in this release, ha!

Hope that answers some doubts you may have -- thanks for the comment.

[dman]

Some feedback - I cant appear to find any way to install on Windows on the following part of your website - https://docs.memsql.com/guides/latest/install-memsql/

[moocowtruck]

good catch i dont see it either..weird

[furicane]

Guys, I believe you are engineers that are doing an amazing job. But the whole "free up to 128GB" promotion is just.. wtf. And the website revolves around attracting IT managers, not engineers that make educated decisions related to project(s). I make decisions based on calculations, not based on shiny websites. I'm not undermining your product. It appears to be amazing. I'd love if it were free and open source. Heck, we'd probably spend a ton of money on it for paid support, scaling planning, consulting, deployment and what not. I just hate your business model, that's all. Let me have your program running without constraints! And because of it, I can't see a reason to use it. I choose to explore other venues that went down the open source route. I'm quite okay with not running the fastest option. No hard feelings, I sincerely wish you make a huge dent in this area and make a ton of money!

[Aeolun]

Free up to 128GB is practically free for up to 95% of applications. In both dev and prod.

I really don’t see how you could have a problem with that.

[AndyNemmity]

The problem is free up to 128GB is not 95% of problems you would run on an in memory database.

I have never seen a productive system that small. I’ve seen thousands.

[ryanjmills]

if you stored data on disk compressed in MemSQL's columnstore, you would use that 128 GB of RAM for query execution. on-disk data storage would not be limited. if that's not a productive system, then I must have imagined the whole data warehouse and data mart market