We are delighted to announce that Altinity Stable Release is updated to 19.16.14.65. The release includes several important bug fixes not present in the previous 19.16.12.49, and one compatibility fix that is important for future upgrades.
Jan 1, 2020Cost-efficiency and performance are critical for big data analytics. For this reason a recent blog post from ScyllaDB guys caught our attention. They collected over 500 billion data points and were able to query it with 1B rows/sec…
Altinity is glad to announce the certification of 19.13.7.57 ClickHouse release as Altinity Stable. This is a minor upgrade over the previous 19.11.8 release, but we recommend users install it before moving to more recent releases due to a few…
CoreOS introduced operators for Kubernetes in 2016. A Kubernetes Operator is an application that integrates into Kuberentes and manages other applications. It significantly simplifies deployment and management of cloud native apps by leveraging application specific operational knowledge. Since then operators…
It is already more than 3 years since ClickHouse surprisingly popped up from inside the Yandex labs and moved to open source. Since then it grew up from an ugly duckling, that was sometimes not that easy to deal with,…
The recent Moscow ClickHouse meetup was quite a big event, as expected. ClickHouse is very popular in Russia and usage has penetrated widely among companies here. 450 people registered, and around 200 showed up at the Yandex conference hall on…
July 10, 2019Modern analytical databases would not exist without efficient data compression. Storage gets cheaper and more performant, but data sizes typically grow even faster. Moore’s Law for big data outperforms its analogy in hardware. In our blog we already…
May 23, 2019ClickHouse offers incredible flexibility to solve almost any business problem in a multiple of ways. Schema design plays a major role in this. For our recent benchmarking using the Time Series Benchmark Suite (TSBS) we replicated TimescaleDB schema…
Apr 9, 2019When I was setting up my first ClickHouse clusters 3 years ago it was like a journey to an unknown world full of caveats. ClickHouse is very simple and easy to use but not THAT simple. Sometimes I…
Mar 27, 2019Many ClickHouse features like LowCardinality data type seem mysterious to new users. ClickHouse often deviates from standard SQL and many data types and operations do not even exist in other data warehouses. The key to understanding is that…
In our previous articles we demonstrated that ClickHouse — a general purpose analytics DB — can easily compete with specialized DBMSs for time series data: TimescaleDB and InfluxDB. There were, however, certain queries, pretty typical for time series, where ClickHouse…
Oct 16, 2018It’s been two years already ago when ClickHouse development team published an excellent blog post “How to update data in ClickHouse”. In that old times ClickHouse supported only monthly partitions, and for mutable data structures, they suggested to…
