What’s Up with Parquet Performance in ClickHouse?

What’s Up with Parquet Performance in ClickHouse?

Supported in ClickHouse, Apache Parquet has use cases other than just a storage format in the Hadoop ecosystem. See what results we got when we tested it in Altinity.Cloud to query Parquet files at S3 with the same efficiency as…

Ultra-Fast AWS Graviton Instances in Altinity.Cloud

Ultra-Fast AWS Graviton Instances in Altinity.Cloud

AWS introduced new instance type families, powered by Graviton3 ARM processors: m7g and r7g. We tested m7g’s performance using the ClickHouse SSB workload and found it’s 35% faster its older brother m6g, and 15% faster than Intel m6i instance! Learn…

Analyzing DockerHub Pull Counts with Clickhouse and Altinity.Cloud

Analyzing DockerHub Pull Counts with Clickhouse and Altinity.Cloud

It is very easy to start collecting data into ClickHouse from public HTTP APIs like DockerHub. Follow our step-by-step guide to create a simple ClickHouse app that extracts data from DockerHub and makes it available for reporting.

Altinity Stable Release 22.8

Altinity Stable Release 22.8

Altinity Stable 22.8 is a significant upgrade from the previous 22.3 release and includes more than 2000 pull requests from 280 contributors. Learn about the new features, changes, known issues, and installation.

ClickHouse as the Looking Glass for OLTP Data

ClickHouse as the Looking Glass for OLTP Data

When users come to Altinity.Cloud, many are not trying to replace non-analytical databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL. They want to migrate data to ClickHouse and keep it in sync with the database, just like a mirror. In this post, we…

Farewell 2022, Welcome 2023!

Farewell 2022, Welcome 2023!

2022 is almost over. Santa Claus is decorating his sleigh for the holiday voyage, and people all around the world are preparing to celebrate the new year. Let’s have a seat and take a quick look back to what Altinity…

Altinity.Cloud Anywhere: An Open Cloud for ClickHouse

Altinity.Cloud Anywhere: An Open Cloud for ClickHouse

Altinity.Cloud Anywhere introduces a new concept of an “open cloud” that allows you to plug other clouds or on-prem deployments into Altinity management plane. The only requirement is Kubernetes.

Open Source Software at Altinity

Open Source Software at Altinity

Since its inception, Altinity has contributed to and maintained many open source projects that are accelerating ClickHouse development and adoption. Read our open source story!

Announcing Updates to 21.1 and 21.8 Altinity Stable Builds

Announcing Updates to 21.1 and 21.8 Altinity Stable Builds

Read the latest updates to 21.1 and 21.8 Altinity Stable Builds for ClickHouse — built in a secure environment and signed and maintained for three years. You’ll find a security update to the 21.1.10.3 release and changes to Community Build…

Too Wide or Not Too Wide — That is the ClickHouse Question

Too Wide or Not Too Wide — That is the ClickHouse Question

When it comes to ClickHouse, how many columns are too many? 100 columns? 5,000 columns? In our latest experiment, we put 10,000 columns to test using some configuration tweaks and enough memory. Click to find out what happened!

Loading 100B Rows in Minutes in Altinity.Cloud

Loading 100B Rows in Minutes in Altinity.Cloud

A few weeks ago the SingleStore team published interesting research in their blog. They demonstrated how to load 100 billion rows in a database in 10 minutes. While it did not seem outstanding for ClickHouse, we were intrigued to learn…