A developer's life is not as comedic as it seems when dealing with single-node open-source databases that struggle with performance issues such as data ingestion, scaling, and storing various types of data. Developers like Jack Ellis from Fathom, Josh Blackburn from IEX Cloud, Gerry Morgan from dailyVest, and Mohammed Radwan from Foodics have experienced challenges with popular open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB. These challenges include application performance hitting a wall, database sprawl due to the need for specialty databases, and reliability problems that can lead to outages and limited growth. To overcome these issues, developers look for a replacement database that offers streaming data ingestion, low-latency query performance, limitless scalability, robust analytical capabilities, and hybrid workload handling. SingleStoreDB, a real-time, distributed SQL database, is a popular choice among developers due to its MySQL wire-compatibility, ease of migration, and ability to provide significant improvements in speed, performance, and scalability. By migrating to SingleStoreDB, these developers have been able to overcome their challenges and achieve major improvements in their applications and business growth.