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Learn how to use ClickHouse for vector search, including storing embeddings and searching with distance functions like cosine similarity.

Understand the key differences between official ClickHouse builds and 3rd-party builds, including updates, compatibility, and security considerations.

Curious what ClickHouse means? Take a look inside this knowledge base article to find out!

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.

OLAP stands for Online Analytical Processing. It is a broad term that can be looked at from two perspectives: technical and business.

First of all, let’s discuss why people ask this question in the first place. There are two key reasons...

ClickHouse is a generic data storage solution for OLAP workloads, while there are many specialized time-series database management systems.