ClickHouse delivers the fastest queries at the lowest query cost

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Accumulated query cost and runtime from Blogs 2–5 Visual 13. Each provider retains its accepted active-ingestion observations and step totals. ClickHouse uses the Blog 2 baseline already used in Blog 6’s combined overview; matched query counts differ across comparisons. BigQuery uses Capacity pricing. Query costs use each source’s accepted normalized allocation. No smoothing, averaging, row rematching or post-ingestion executions are added. Zero values stay in readouts and have no position on logarithmic axes.