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Working remotely is one thing, but how connected you are within a company is another. It’s so rewarding to know who every single person is, what is going on in their lives and, of course, be comfortable enough to ask, “Hey, let’s share an awesome cup of c

Inverted Indices to ClickHouse? Yes, you read it right. Read on to learn more about how they work and how you can use them to accelerate your string matching.

Following up on our recent webinar, read about how dbt can be used with ClickHouse thanks to a community contribution and how some recent developments ClickHouse have allowed improvements in the plugin.

Learn how to manage data lifecycles in ClickHouse, from deleting rows and columns to modifying compression levels and colum

It's a new year! And, it is also a new release of ClickHouse. We are delighted to introduce 23.1. Inverted Indices, Parametized Views and a Query Results Cache! Not to mention 17 performance optimisations and 78 bug fixes!

We welcome Trillabit as a guest to our blog. Read on to hear from Keith Riddolls (CEO/Founder) to find out why they chose ClickHouse over Apache Solr and Snowflake to power their reporting and business intelligence platform.

Read the the final part in our series on how Postgres and ClickHouse complement each other, this time focusing on dictionaries and reverse ETL.

Learn about the wide range of data formats supported by ClickHouse, for both input and output, and read more in our newly published guides.

We would like to welcome Gaurav Kumar, Founder and CEO of Dassana as a guest to our blog today. Read on to hear why they chose ClickHouse for their Security Data Lake which consolidates disparate data sources to provide contextualized data insights.

Read about how our community created a new SQL playground for ClickHouse, allowing you to run and test queries on any version!

Learn how to use Materialized Views in ClickHouse to improve query performance and extend data management capabilities.

ClickHouse Newsletter January 2023: Better Safe Than Sorry

Monitor your Windows servers and workstations for security threats by sending Event Logs to ClickHouse using FluentBit

Announcing the release of a new official ClickHouse Kafka Connect Connector with exactly-once delivery semantics

In this blog series we discuss how to build an Observability solution with ClickHouse, first focusing on Logs and data collection using Vector, Fluent Bit and the Open Telemetry Collector

Read about how you can store and query time series data in ClickHouse using a range of functions and SQL techniques

It is indeed amazingly fast! Now, even with caching turned off, the largest of our datasets loads in under a few seconds. Our customers are really happy with the user experience and we are confident in our ability to scale as we add more customers and rol

Read how you can monitor the job queues for GitHub Actions using ClickHouse

Learn how you can use clickhouse-local to analyze and transform your local and remote files using just the power of SQL on your laptop

Read about how to monitor and troubleshoot your SELECT queries in the second blog of this series from our support team

Read about how you can generate realistic test data for your applications using ClickHouse's random functions

Read about how to monitor and troubleshoot your insert queries in the first blog of this series from our support team

Ever wondered how to debug an issue in ClickHouse? Need a specific statistic, or are you curious about the queries being executed by your users and those that are failing? Read about how ClickHouse support uses system tables to answer these questions.

Read about how PostgreSQL and ClickHouse complement each other and how data can be easily moved between them using native ClickHouse functions.

17 new features. 8 performance optimisations. 39 bug fixes. If that’s not enough to get you interested in trying it out. Check out some of the headline items: * `grace_hash` JOINs * password complexity rules * BSON support * `GROUP BY ALL` support * Add

Read about generic techniques you can use to accelerate your ClickHouse queries including projections and indexes

Read about how you can optimize your data storage and achieve higher levels of compressions with schema changes and codecs

ClickHouse Newsletter December 2022: Project all your troubles away

Read about how we can now use User Defined Functions (UDFs) in ClickHouse Cloud to solve problems beyond the ClickHouse grammar

Dictionaries are now available in ClickHouse Cloud. Learn how to use them today to accelerate your queries!

ClickHouse Cloud is production-ready with SOC 2 Type II compliance, Uptime SLAs, and AWS Marketplace integration.

ClickHouse, used by Cloudflare, Adevinta, Uber, and thousands of other companies, available today on AWS Marketplace as a cloud offering - ClickHouse Cloud

15 new features. 5 performance optimisations. 32 bug fixes. Including: Composite time intervals, Support for ** Glob, Functions for Spark compatibility, Retries on INSERT, Data Lake support via Apache Hudi and Delta Lake for SELECT queries.

Our security and compliance commitment to you, third party verified and now available for download.

Read about how we exploit JIT compilation in ClickHouse

Read about how array and window functions can be used to identify sequences in data, using Git commits an example

Read about how you can store the git commit history of any repository in ClickHouse for analysis...starting with ClickHouse itself.

ClickHouse Newsletter November 2022: The purifying effects of obfuscation

Learn how migrating from Elasticsearch to ClickHouse enabled GraphQL Hive to scale from millions to billions of requests monthly and make everything 100x faster. "ClickHouse helped us to scale from millions to billions of rows monthly without headaches."

This month, we’ve had the opportunity to chat with Niek Lok, Commercial Account Executive- EMEA, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We’re very grateful to Niek for all the work he does with users of ClickHouse and clients, as well as his uniquely positi

Send Kubernetes logs to ClickHouse with Fluent Bit

The 13 most common getting started issues with ClickHouse

Rust’s rich type system and ownership model guarantee memory-safety and thread-safety. There are a fairly large number of useful libraries written on it, so we considered using them in ClickHouse.

Send Nginx logs to ClickHouse with Fluent Bit

ClickHouse Official Node.js Client is now available!

Visualizing data in ClickHouse with Metabase

The world’s fastest command-line tool for querying JSON files? clickhouse-local.

ClickHouse Newsletter October 2022: A cloud has arrived

Visualizing data in ClickHouse with Superset

ClickHouse turned out to be 11 times cheaper (in infrastructure cost) and allowed us to have a 10x performance improvement in our p99 for queries.

Visualizing data in ClickHouse with Grafana

ClickHouse Cloud has entered public beta. Get your free trial now!

In part 3 of the Getting data into ClickHouse series, we use S3 as a datasource for ClickHouse to perform an analysis on over 10 billion forex trades.

ClickHouse Newsletter September 2022: Deleting data can make you feel better

This month, we’ve had the opportunity to chat with San Tran, Application Security Engineer based in Australia.

The first part in a series where we load real world datasets into ClickHouse in a few simple steps.

The 2.0 release of the ClickHouse plugin for Grafana improves filtering while adding support for HTTP and JSON.

In part 2 of the Getting data into ClickHouse series, we utilize the JSON type demonstrating its flexibility for handling semi-structured data.

Get started with ClickHouse by inserting data from local and remote files

ClickHouse Newsletter August 2022: Airlines are maybe not that bad

On why exactly NANO Corp. switched to ClickHouse to support its NOC as a Service (NOCaaS) offering and never looked back!

After analysing a few other database systems and weighing up the pros and cons of each, the Darwinium team chose ClickHouse as the database engine of choice to power its interactive analytics use cases for fraud and cybersecurity analysts.

At DeepL, we use ClickHouse as our central data warehouse. Today, it serves multiple use-cases: From analytics for our websites and apps, to making company metrics available to everyone, as well as technical monitoring.

This month, we’ve had the chance to chat with Claire Lucas, our Director of Global Business Strategy & Operations, based in the US, Colorado.

ClickHouse Newsletter July 2022: Geo queries for railway enthusiasts

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of an integration allowing ClickHouse users to quickly, and simply, install and use Deepnote.

Optimizing your customer-facing analytics experience with Cumul.io and ClickHouse

Collecting Semi-structured Data from Kafka Topics Using ClickHouse Kafka Engine

ClickHouse is developing very quickly: you can see semi-structured data support, asynchronous inserts, replicated database engine, RBAC and other large features developed just recently

Our regular May release has new features for those of you running large memory-hungry workloads, we talk about querying incomplete time series data and bring you some reading material to enjoy on your garden or balcony at the end.

It’s not just an opportunity to network, though. You will hear stories of ClickHouse powering a performance & monitoring service and a detailed exploration of how, and why, ClickHouse is so fast.

How QuickCheck uses ClickHouse to bring banking to the Unbanked

Read on to find out why DENIC chose ClickHouse to power their data science platform allowing them to analyze data from a wide range of sources.

A warm welcome to you all. It has been a busy few weeks at the ClickHouse office in Amsterdam – we have launched the private preview phase of our ClickHouse Cloud service!

10x improved response times, cheaper to operate, and 30% storage reduction: why Instabug chose ClickHouse for APM

ClickHouse Docs have a new look and feel!

ClickHouse Newsletter April 2022: JSON, JSON, JSON

ClickHouse 22.3 LTS Released

Building a Paste Service With ClickHouse

We Stand With Ukraine

How BENOCS uses ClickHouse to monitor network traffic for the world’s biggest telcos

International Women’s Day 2022: #BreakTheBias

Stories of Difference, Inspiration, Courage, and Empathy: International Women’s Day 2022

ClickHouse Newsletter March 2022: There’s a window function for that!

ClickHouse 22.2 Released

Opensee: Analyzing Terabytes of Financial Data a Day With ClickHouse

ClickHouse Newsletter February 2022: Do you know how to search a table?

What’s New in ClickHouse 22.1

Admixer Aggregates Over 1 Billion Unique Users a Day using ClickHouse

Decorating a Christmas Tree With the Help Of Flaky Tests

What’s New in ClickHouse 21.12

How to Enable Predictive Capabilities in ClickHouse Databases

Plausible Analytics uses ClickHouse to power their privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative

ClickHouse organized an online Meetup on October 19, 2021, hosted by our very own co-founder and CTO, Alexey Milovidov.

The 21.11 release includes asynchronous inserts, interactive mode, UDFs, predefined connections, and compression gains.

Today, we are excited to announce that ClickHouse has raised $250 million in Series B funding at a $2B valuation.

In the 21.10 release, we have a wonderful 79 contributors with 1255 commits across 211 pull requests - what an amazing community and we cherish your contributions.

Today, we're happy to announce ClickHouse, Inc., the new home of ClickHouse

One of the main selling points of ClickHouse is that it's very fast, in many cases utilizing the hardware up to the theoretical limits. This speed boils down to a right combination of architectural choices and algorithmic optimizations.

Code review is one of the few software development techniques that are consistently found to reduce the incidence of defects.

We are always looking for the ways to improve our test coverage, and this article will describe our recent development in this area — the AST-based query fuzzer.

We performed experiments to find out how different Linux system calls perform for available devices.

One of the great “features” of ClickHouse is a friendly and welcoming community.

This is a brief description of my experiments with building ClickHouse on Android.

ClickHouse users already know that its biggest advantage is its high-speed processing of analytical queries. But claims like this need to be confirmed with reliable performance testing.

When you run queries in ClickHouse, you might notice that the profiler often shows the LZ_decompress_fast function near the top. What is going on?

Alexey Milovidov, head of ClickHouse development group at Yandex, has given an open two-part lecture at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science.

Our 24th ClickHouse Meetup globally and 3rd one in China took place in Beijing on Dragon Boat Festival weekend.

This year American episode of Percona Live took place in nice waterfront location in Austin, TX, which welcomed open source database experts with pretty hot weather.

23rd ClickHouse Meetup in San Francisco was held in CloudFlare office and co-organized by Altinity.

ClickHouse Meetup in Limassol on May 7, 2019

Schedule of ClickHouse Meetups in China for 2019

Concept: "Cloud" MergeTree Tables

ClickHouse at Percona Live Europe 2018

ClickHouse Meetup in Amsterdam on November 15, 2018

ClickHouse Community Meetup in Beijing on October 28, 2018

ClickHouse at Analysys A10 2018

Announcing ClickHouse Meetup in Amsterdam on November 15

ClickHouse Community Meetup in Paris on October 2, 2018

ClickHouse Community Meetup in Berlin on July 3, 2018

Announcing ClickHouse Community Meetup in Berlin on July 3

ClickHouse Meetup in Madrid on April 2, 2019

ClickHouse Community Meetup in Beijing on January 27, 2018

Join the ClickHouse Meetup in Berlin

ClickHouse Meetup in Berlin, October 5, 2017

ClickHouse at [email protected] 2017

ClickHouse Meetup in Santa Clara on May 4, 2017

Needless to say that for a relatively new player on the market like ClickHouse, it’s been a great opportunity to spread the word about the technology and how exactly it allows us to perform analytics on petabytes of data in real-time.

Yandex.Metrica takes in a stream of data representing events that took place on sites or on apps. Our task is to keep this data and present it in an analyzable form.

There is no UPDATE or DELETE commands in ClickHouse at the moment. And that’s not because we have some religious believes. ClickHouse is performance-oriented system; and data modifications are hard to store and process optimally in terms of performance

Today [analytical DBMS ClickHouse](https://clickhouse.com/) initially developed internally at Yandex, became available to everyone. Source code is published on [GitHub](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse) under Apache 2.0 license.