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title: "How to Enable Predictive Capabilities in ClickHouse Databases"
date: "2022-07-12T14:24:32.580Z"
author: "Ilya Yatsishin"
category: "Engineering"
excerpt: "Discover the steps to unlock predictive capabilities in ClickHouse databases. Enable advanced predictive analytics & reveal the potential in your data. "
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# How to Enable Predictive Capabilities in ClickHouse Databases

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ClickHouse is a fast, open-source, column-oriented SQL database that is very useful for data analysis and real-time analytics and with MindsDB can be turned into a powerful machine learning platform for business forecasting.

In this article, we will

– Guide you through the machine learning workflow and how to use ClickHouse’s powerful tools, like materialized views, to better and more effectively handle data cleaning and preparation – especially for the large datasets with billions of rows of data,

– Explore the concept of AI Tables from MindsDB and how they can be used within ClickHouse to automatically build predictive models and make forecasts using simple SQL statements, and

– Share how MindsDB automates really complex machine learning tasks, like multivariate time-series analysis with high cardinality, show how to detect anomalies, and visualize these predictions.

[Read Further](https://mindsdb.com/blog/enabling-predictive-capabilities-in-clickhouse-database/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=clickhouse&utm_campaign=clickhouse-ml-article-2021-12)