The short answer is "yes". ClickHouse has multiple mechanisms that allow freeing up disk space by removing old data. Each mechanism is aimed for different scenarios.
The short answer is yes. However, we recommend keeping latency between all regions/datacenters in two-digit range, otherwise write performance will suffer as it goes through distributed consensus protocol.
If you use Oracle as a source of ClickHouse external dictionaries via Oracle ODBC driver, you need to set the correct value for the `NLS_LANG` environment variable in `/etc/default/clickhouse`.
A columnar database stores the data of each column independently. This allows reading data from disk only for those columns that are used in any given query.
ClickHouse is an open-source project developed on GitHub. As customary, contribution instructions are published in CONTRIBUTING file in the root of the source code repository.