Drivers and Interfaces

ClickHouse provides three network interfaces (they can be optionally wrapped in TLS for additional security):

• HTTP, which is documented and easy to use directly.
• Native TCP, which has less overhead.
• gRPC.

In most cases it is recommended to use an appropriate tool or library instead of interacting with those directly. The following are officially supported by ClickHouse:

• Command-line client
• JDBC driver
• ODBC driver
• C++ client library

ClickHouse server provides embedded visual interfaces for power users:

• Play UI: open /play in the browser;
• Advanced Dashboard: open /dashboard in the browser;
• Binary symbols viewer for ClickHouse engineers: open /binary in the browser;

There are also a wide range of third-party libraries for working with ClickHouse:

• Client libraries
• Integrations
• Visual interfaces