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At Visa, we’ve built a strong partnership with ClickHouse to achieve a strong data analytics platform that powers business insights and drives business outcomes.
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- Financial services
ClickHouse for financial services
Financial institutions run on data that moves fast: transactions, trades, payment events, and AI interactions happening simultaneously at scale. ClickHouse queries it in real time, supports the agents built on top of it, and gives teams full observability into performance at a cost efficient scale.
- Capital markets: From quant backtests to real-time P&L, capital markets teams need a database that handles decades of market data and millions of trade events per second, without the wait.
- Banking & payments: Power real-time customer applications, monitor payment infrastructure end to end, and run usage-based billing across billions of events daily.
- Financial crime: Run fraud decisioning, AML monitoring, and KYC pattern scoring across billions of transactions with the speed and concurrency investigation workflows demand.
- Digital assets & crypto: Run live trading analytics, on-chain intelligence, and API observability at the speed and scale DeFi requires.
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ClickHouse was a huge win for us. We improved response times by 80% and reduced memory usage by 75% and we’re forecasting about a 50% reduction in costs.
Trusted by the world’s leading financial institutions and fintechs
Built for the real-time analytics that power financial services
ClickHouse runs the workloads where sub-second latency, high concurrency, and cost efficiency all matter, backed by the compliance and deployment controls regulated institutions require.
Existing data made interactive
Power embedded analytics, dashboards, APIs, portfolio views, and more where low-latency matters to the customer experience.
See how Ramp enables millisecond-speed analytics for their customers. Read here.
Built for agentic analytics
AI agents and copilots fire thousands of concurrent queries simultaneously, without slowing down at peak load, or scaling when traffic spikes. ClickHouse delivers real-time performance at scale without the operational complexity, with ClickHouse MCP and LibreChat to help you build agents directly on your data.
Learn how Visa created conversation agents with LibreChat. Read here.
Trace and evaluate AI agents
Trace AI-assisted workflows across research, fraud, operations, and advisory functions, and use those insights to continuously improve quality, cost, and latency across prompts, models, and retrieval paths.
Learn how global payments company SumUp rolled out AI-powered support for 4 million merchants across 35+ markets building on Langfuse. Read here.
Cost efficient observability that scales
Ingest petabytes of log and trace data with ClickHouse’s columnar storage compression, keeping years of historical data queryable in standard SQL. Full-fidelity log retention for regulatory compliance without sampling or cold-tier rehydration.
The D. E. Shaw group uses ClickHouse to power high-cardinality observability. Read here.
Sub-second ingest-to-query
Ingest millions of market, transaction, or payment events per second through ClickPipes, data is queryable within milliseconds of ingestion.
Polymarket streams high volume trades and other on-chain events into ClickHouse. Read here.
Deploy where your data lives
Open source at its core, ClickHouse is built for flexibility and no proprietary dependencies, no vendor lock-in. Run in your own AWS, GCP, Azure account, or BYOC for full data residency control. ClickHouse fits your infrastructure strategy without compromising on performance or compliance requirements.
Deutsche Bank has used ClickHouse to store trade data since 2017. Watch here.
Use cases
Capital markets
- Quant Research: Hundreds of researchers querying decades of market data in seconds, not minutes.
- Real-time P&L: P&L screens that refresh as trades settle, backed by millisecond ingestion of millions of trade events.
- Sub-second portfolio analytics: Continuously updated analytics for compliance warnings, position snapshots, currency exposures, and benchmark comparisons.
- Trade surveillance: Full tick-fidelity order book and execution history with columnar compression, making multi-year retention economically viable without sampling.
QRT, a global investment manager, uses ClickHouse Cloud to power a data platform serving researchers, as well as a real-time risk and P&L system. Read here
Financial crime
- Fraud detection: Powers the analytics layer of fraud decisioning, continuously ingesting transaction and behavioral events, merchant pattern aggregations, and behavioral scoring for sub-second queries at high concurrency.
- AML and KYC monitoring: Enable entity resolution and behavioral pattern scoring over billions of transactions, alert investigation queries that complete in seconds.
Customers needed real-time fraud detection. With ClickHouse, SEON delivered even lower latency than expected. Read here
Banking & payments
- Embedded analytics: Sub-second queries across billions of customer events, fast enough to surface live spend, portfolio, and risk insights directly in your product.
- Payment analytics: Continuously ingested payment events, queryable within milliseconds for authorization analytics, decline patterns, and reconciliation.
- Payment and banking observability: End-to-end visibility into payment infrastructure, from authorization latency to settlement status, with full-fidelity event history queryable in real time.
- Billing and usage metering: Sub-second aggregation across billions of metering events for usage-based billing at scale.
Every signal drives critical decisions. At Visa, ClickHouse Cloud and LibreChat deliver real-time insights that identify at-risk merchants and uncovered millions in potential revenue risk. Read here
Digital assets & crypto
- On-chain analytics: Millisecond queries on continuously ingested on-chain event streams, supporting live trading analytics, blockchain intelligence APIs, and liquidity monitoring at DeFi scale.
- Crypto infrastructure analytics: Every API request ingested and queryable in real time, with per-org dashboards covering latency, error rates, and endpoint usage.
As blockchain adoption accelerates, even a 4–5x increase in data won't be a concern at Merkle Science. Read here
Unlock real-time insights and user experiences
Whether you’re performing live analysis to drive business outcomes or building interactive user-facing applications, ClickHouse delivers the unparalleled speed-to-insight you can depend on.
Simplify your SQL
ClickHouse supports an extensive library of domain-specific functions that transform even the most complex queries into simple SQL statements. With ClickHouse, real-time data exploration is easy and powerful.
Manage data efficiently
With highly optimized compression techniques and our fully parallelized query pipeline, ClickHouse maximizes CPU efficiency and provides the power to quickly process huge volumes of compressed data.
Scale effortlessly
ClickHouse scales both vertically and horizontally to meet the demands of any workload — read and write — to systems with hundreds of cores and petabytes of storage. ClickHouse provides the scalability you need to effortlessly handle increasing data volumes and workloads over time.
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