Kafka Engine: the Story Continues
In this article, we give an overview of the Kafka engine in ClickHouse and propose a list of improvements that should make it even better.
Altinity Stable® Build for ClickHouse® 24.3
Altinity Stable® Build for ClickHouse® 24.3 is now available!
Learning from Rockset: Avoiding the Dangers of Lock-in to Cloud Database-as-a-Services
The news that the popular Rockset cloud service is going to be terminated is shocking. So the question arises – is there a way to keep benefits of DBaaS service providers but remove the downside of vendor lock-in, including risks…
Building A Better ClickHouse® for Parquet in Practice
A few weeks ago we discussed how to read external Parquet data from ClickHouse. The article raised some performance concerns when querying big collections of Parquet files out of AWS S3 buckets. Time flies fast. Altinity engineers have made some…
Building A Better ClickHouse®
In this article, we give a short retrospective of Altinity contributions to ClickHouse and also introduce our view on how ClickHouse should evolve to be the best database on the planet!
Math Games in ClickHouse® — Solving Project Euler Problems
ClickHouse is an extremely versatile DBMS. When presenting it to newbies, I sometimes describe it as a combination of four “F”-s: Fast, Flexible, Fun and Free. We often benchmark ClickHouse in different scenarios to demonstrate how fast it is. Case…
Reading External Parquet Data from ClickHouse®
ClickHouse support for Apache Parquet is outstanding. We blogged about it last year in “What’s Up With Parquet Performance in ClickHouse”. In this article, we will look at Parquet from a different perspective. Let’s say there is public Parquet data…
Altinity Stable Build for ClickHouse® 23.8
After 4 months of testing the latest Altinity Stable Build for ClickHouse 23.8 is ready! Find out about the features that await you.
Bring Your Own Cloud for ClickHouse®
Altinity.Cloud Anywhere’s innovative Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) model offers complete user control of data and simple administration. Learn how to to use Altinity.Cloud in your analytic stack.
The Tournament of AWS CPUs in Altinity.Cloud®
Dive into our latest blog to explore a rigorous ClickHouse benchmark tournament, featuring AWS’s 7th-gen Intel m7i, AMD m7a, and Graviton m7g instances. With Altinity.Cloud’s easy configuration, discover which instance offers the best price-performance ratio for your cloud operations. Find…
Is ClickHouse® Moving Away from Open Source?
Open source licensing helped ClickHouse grow. Now the project is moving to open core. There’s reason for users to be concerned.