With MemSQL 6.5, the fastest database just got a lot faster. MemSQL is a performance-oriented product that capitalizes on several techniques to give excellent overall speed. These techniques include optimized disk-based and in-memory data structures, parallelism, scale out, compilation of queries to machine code, vectorization, and single instruction, multiple data (SIMD). In MemSQL 6.5, we advanced performance in many dimensions, including query execution (QE), query optimization (QO), data loading, and system man