Our new database-as-a-service offering, MemSQL Helios, was relatively easy to create – and will be easier to maintain – thanks to Kubernetes. The cloud-native container management software has been updated to more fully support stateful applications. This has made it particularly useful for creating and deploying MemSQL Helios, as we describe here. From Cloud-Native to Cloud Service MemSQL is a distributed, cloud-native SQL database that provides in-memory rowstore and on-disk columnstore to meet the ne