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Have you ever wondered what it takes to build a serverless software as a service (SaaS) offering in under a year? In this blog post, we will describe how we built ClickHouse Cloud from the ground up


Company and culture
Read about Elissa's journey in tech. Celebrating the women in our community and company.


Engineering
With the recent addition of Lightweight Deletes, read about the latest best practices for handling updates and deletes in ClickHouse.


Customer stories
Juspay, an Indian fintech company, uses ClickHouse to power A/B testing and monitoring for its end-to-end payment solutions and real-time merchant dashboards. With over 50 million daily transactions for clients such as Amazon, Google, and Vodafone, Click


Engineering
18 new features, 30 performance optimizations and 43 fixes. 22.2 brings support for Apache Icebery, Prewhere optimizations and a correlation matrix function


Company and culture
International Women's Day presents an opportunity to acknowledge and appreciate the countless professional women who are shaping the world in diverse fields, ranging from executives and entrepreneurs to scientists and activists.


Engineering
Read about how ClickHouse fully supports all SQL joins and how they are adapted to the ClickHouse query pipeline and optimized for performance.


Engineering
Unlock powerful real-time analytics with ClickHouse. Learn how to seamlessly migrate data from BigQuery and supercharge your data-driven decision-making.


Engineering
Testing ClickHouse and proving we're the world's fastest analytical database requires realistic data. Unfortunately, real data is often sensitive. Learn about the origins of the tool clickhouse-obfuscator, and we obfuscate test data for ClickHouse.


Engineering
We're pleased to announce the GA release of the official ClickHouse plugin for Metabase and its availability in Metabase Cloud!


Product
How is it possible that it is 2023? And, not only that, already time for our second newsletter of the year! Compiling the reading list this month was particularly difficult as the amount of content was immense.


Engineering
Read about, and watch our recent webinar on how ClickHouse and Grafana can be used to build beautiful real-time dashboards, with a demo taking Grafana users down memory lane and 10 years since the first commit.


Engineering
With 23.1 we introduced the Query Cache. Such a feature deserves its own blog post, so read about the design, how to use the cache, and future planned improvements.


Engineering
Need to solve a specific aggregation problem and can't find the function you're looking for? Look no further than Aggregate Combinators! Learn how you can combine aggregation functions with combinators to elegantly solve complex queries


Engineering
Debug security group issues, monitor your ingress and egress traffic, and minimize your cloud traffic costs - all by just inserting your AWS Flow Logs into ClickHouse!


Company and culture
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


Engineering
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.


Engineering
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.


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


Engineering
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!


Customer stories
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.


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


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


Customer stories
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.


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


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


Product
ClickHouse Newsletter January 2023: Better Safe Than Sorry


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


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


Engineering
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


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


Customer stories
Find out why HIFI switched from BigQuery to ClickHouse to aggregate royalties data from disparate revenue streams.


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


Engineering
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


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


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


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


Product
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.


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


Engineering
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


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


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


Product
ClickHouse Newsletter December 2022: Project all your troubles away


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


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


Company and culture
On December 6, 2022, Baudouin Giard, Engineering Team Lead on the Structured Products team at Bloomberg, presented his team's use case for ClickHouse at the NYC meetup.


Company and culture
On December 6, 2022, Vadim Semenov, Engineering Manager in charge of Reporting and Analytics at Rokt, presented his team's use case for ClickHouse at the NYC meetup. Rokt is a global marketing technology company that specializes in developing e-commerce m


Company and culture
On December 6, 2022 Roni Lazimi, a Software Engineer from Disney's Observability team within Disney+ participated in the ClickHouse Meetup at the Rokt office in NYC.


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


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


Engineering
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.


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


Engineering
Read about how we exploit JIT compilation in ClickHouse


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


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


Product
ClickHouse Newsletter November 2022: The purifying effects of obfuscation


Customer stories
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."


Company and culture
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


Engineering
Send Kubernetes logs to ClickHouse with Fluent Bit


Engineering
The 13 most common getting started issues with ClickHouse


Engineering
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.


Engineering
Send Nginx logs to ClickHouse with Fluent Bit


Engineering
ClickHouse Official Node.js Client is now available!


Engineering
Visualizing data in ClickHouse with Metabase


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


Product
ClickHouse Newsletter October 2022: A cloud has arrived


Engineering
Visualizing data in ClickHouse with Superset


Customer stories
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.


Engineering
Visualizing data in ClickHouse with Grafana


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


Engineering
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.


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


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


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


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


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


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


Product
ClickHouse Newsletter August 2022: Airlines are maybe not that bad


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


Customer stories
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.


Customer stories
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.


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


Product
ClickHouse Newsletter July 2022: Geo queries for railway enthusiasts


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


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


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


Engineering
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


Product
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.


Company and culture
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.


Customer stories
How QuickCheck uses ClickHouse to bring banking to the Unbanked


Customer stories
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.


Product
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!


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


Company and culture
ClickHouse Docs have a new look and feel!


Product
ClickHouse Newsletter April 2022: JSON, JSON, JSON


Product
ClickHouse 22.3 LTS Released


Engineering
Building a Paste Service With ClickHouse


Company and culture
We Stand With Ukraine


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


Company and culture
International Women’s Day 2022: #BreakTheBias


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


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


Product
ClickHouse 22.2 Released


Customer stories
Opensee: Analyzing Terabytes of Financial Data a Day With ClickHouse

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


Product
What’s New in ClickHouse 22.1


Customer stories
Admixer Aggregates Over 1 Billion Unique Users a Day using ClickHouse


Engineering
Decorating a Christmas Tree With the Help Of Flaky Tests


Product
What’s New in ClickHouse 21.12


Engineering
How to Enable Predictive Capabilities in ClickHouse Databases


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


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


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


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


Engineering
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.


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


Engineering
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.


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


Engineering
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.


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


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


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


Engineering
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.


Engineering
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?


Engineering
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.


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


Company and culture
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.


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


Company and culture
ClickHouse Meetup in Limassol on May 7, 2019


Company and culture
Schedule of ClickHouse Meetups in China for 2019


Company and culture
Concept: "Cloud" MergeTree Tables


Company and culture
ClickHouse at Percona Live Europe 2018


Company and culture
ClickHouse Meetup in Amsterdam on November 15, 2018


Company and culture
ClickHouse Community Meetup in Beijing on October 28, 2018


Company and culture
ClickHouse at Analysys A10 2018


Company and culture
Announcing ClickHouse Meetup in Amsterdam on November 15


Company and culture
ClickHouse Community Meetup in Paris on October 2, 2018


Company and culture
ClickHouse Community Meetup in Berlin on July 3, 2018


Company and culture
Announcing ClickHouse Community Meetup in Berlin on July 3


Company and culture
ClickHouse Meetup in Madrid on April 2, 2019


Company and culture
ClickHouse Community Meetup in Beijing on January 27, 2018


Company and culture
Join the ClickHouse Meetup in Berlin


Company and culture
ClickHouse Meetup in Berlin, October 5, 2017


Company and culture
ClickHouse at [email protected] 2017


Company and culture
ClickHouse Meetup in Santa Clara on May 4, 2017


Company and culture
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.


Engineering
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.


Product
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


Company and culture
Today analytical DBMS ClickHouse initially developed internally at Yandex, became available to everyone. Source code is published on GitHub under Apache 2.0 license.

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