SAS, SingleStore join forces to remove barriers to data access

SAS has partnered with SingleStore to assist organizations in removing data access barriers, optimizing performance and scalability, and uncovering key data-driven insights. SAS® Viya® with SingleStore enables SAS analytics and AI technology to be used on data stored in SingleStore’s cloud-native real-time database. The integration enables cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployments to benefit from flexible, open access to curated data.

“The economic costs of storage and infrastructure, as well as the complexity of data integration and manual processing, often obstruct today’s technology leaders from making decisions quickly and effectively,” said Carl Olofson, Research Vice President of Data Management Software at IDC. “By moving more intelligence capabilities closer to their data, organizations can greatly improve productivity and performance, reduce economic costs and accelerate data-driven decisions.”  

The companies hope to reduce the complexity of data management and integration, as well as the computational time required to train sophisticated models, by leveraging SingleStore’s data compression and SAS’ analytic performance.

“For many organizations, repetitive data movement, manual processes and isolated data islands make it difficult to quickly derive value from analytics,” said Bryan Harris, Chief Technology Officer at SAS. “SAS Viya with SingleStore delivers a game-changing set of capabilities that simplifies and accelerates the iterative data and analytics loops to improve speed-to-decision and unlock that critical value.”

SAS Viya in conjunction with SingleStore enables SAS’s advanced AI and machine learning analytics to be executed directly against relational database tables in SingleStore. By delivering this capability, SAS and SingleStore will significantly reduce customers’ technical debt from redundant data stores, thereby improving analytic workload performance and revealing key competitive advantages.

“The integration of SingleStore’s hybrid, multi-cloud database into the parallel analytics engine, SAS Viya, will dramatically improve performance, reduce cost, and enable real-time applications for organizations,” said Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore. “Personally, it is a privilege to partner with the company that practically invented analytics, AI and ML. I have long admired SAS in terms of its technology, culture and leadership, and to partner with them as they reinvent the space is both an honor and an exciting opportunity.” 

SingleStore announced a strategic partnership with SAS in December 2020. Visit sas.com/viya-singlestore and singlestore.com/partners/sas-viya/ to learn more about the SAS Viya with SingleStore integration, which is now available.