ClickHouse

    ClickHouse® Black Magic, Part 2: Bloom Filters

    Bloom filters are an important ClickHouse index type with mysterious parameters. Take a closer look at the theory behind bloom filters, parameter selection using queries on a test dataset, and effective tuning.

    Announcing the New Altinity & PostHog Partnership

    Today we’re excited to officially announce our partnership with PostHog. We’ve worked with PostHog’s teams on this integration and have collaborated on ClickHouse-related topics since 2020. It’s great to be able to share with the wider open source analytics community…

    Fixing the Dreaded ClickHouse® Crash Loop on Kubernetes

    As countless ClickHouse users have learned, Kubernetes is a great platform for data. It’s portable to almost every IT environment. But there’s still the occasional dark cloud. One of these is pod crash loops, which arise when a ClickHouse pod…

    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…

    ClickHouse® Black Magic: Skipping Indices

    ClickHouse indices are different from traditional relational database management systems. Instead, ClickHouse uses secondary ‘skipping’ indices. Those are often confusing and hard to tune even for experienced ClickHouse users. In this article we will dive into skipping indices and learn…

    Altinity Quickstart for ClickHouse®! Build Your First App

    About to build your first analytic app on ClickHouse? Altinity Quickstart for ClickHouse (formerly ClickHouse Bootcamp) is for you. We’ll teach you what you need to know, from installation to connecting to BI tools and Kafka.