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How to enforce limit on max query execution time

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.

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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.

A short example on how to extract base types from JSON

The short answer is **"no"**. The key-value workload is among top positions in the list of cases when **NOT** to use ClickHouse.

We can refer to systems like MapReduce as distributed computing systems in which the reduce operation is based on distributed sorting. The most common open-source solution in this class is Apache Hadoop.

Learn the recommended maximum limits for databases, tables, partitions, and parts in a ClickHouse cluster to ensure optimal performance.