This blog post discusses the need for a new approach to data processing, driven by the increasing demands of operational analytics. The traditional infrastructure is struggling to keep up with these demands, leading to rising costs and complexity. SingleStore, a cloud-native operational database, was built to address these challenges, providing speed, scale, and concurrency. It supports operational analytics, predictive analytics, and custom applications, and can be easily integrated with existing systems. With its distributed architecture, skip list data structure, and innovations like query compilation, SingleStore offers a powerful solution for businesses looking to meet the requirements of modern workloads.