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.