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ClickHouse

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database built for high-performance analytics and real-time data processing.

What is ClickHouse?

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database management system designed for extremely fast analytical queries. It excels at online analytical processing (OLAP) workloads, large datasets, and real-time reporting.

ClickHouse achieves high performance through:

  • column-oriented storage
  • vectorized query execution
  • data compression
  • parallel processing

It supports SQL (with extensions), handles both batch and streaming ingestion, and is widely used in analytics platforms, observability tools, event pipelines, and data warehousing systems.


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