Harden Your ClickHouse® Security With Altinity’s Step-by-Step Guide
Take advantage of ClickHouse’s build-in security features to harden your ClickHouse environment, including user hardening, network communication security, & storage hardening.
ClickHouse® Nails Cost Efficiency Challenge Against Druid & Rockset
Rick Bilodeau from Imply published an excellent article in June 2020 comparing Druid cost-efficiency to Google Big Query for what they called ‘hot analytics’ — sub-second response time with high query concurrency. We appreciate this effort and great results of…
Integrating ClickHouse® with LDAP (Part One)
ClickHouse has traditionally used XML configuration files to define server configuration including all database users. The users.xml configuration file or separate configuration files inside the /etc/clickhouse-server/users.d directory define users and properties associated with them such as profiles, network restrictions, quotas,…
Building Beautiful Interactive Dashboards with Grafana and ClickHouse®
Grafana and ClickHouse are a very popular combination for interactive dashboards on big data. In this presentation, we’ll show you how to install Grafana on ClickHouse, and lead you through the steps to create nice-looking dashboards of your own. The…
Accessing ClickHouse® from Excel using Mondrian ROLAP engine
ClickHouse is a very powerful database for analytics. Microsoft Excel is one of the world’s most popular business applications. There are several ways to bring ClickHouse data to Excel spreadsheets. In this article we will explain how to connect Excel…
Altinity Welcomes Anurag Gupta and Mike Olson as Advisors
~ Altinity is the largest enterprise ClickHouse® services provider. Altinity recently launched its first cloud service, Altinity.Cloud® and now aims to become a market leader in the Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) Space. ~ Altinity raised its first venture funding…
Goodbye XML, hello SQL! ClickHouse® User Management Goes Pro
Access control is one of the essential features of database management. Starting in late 2019 ClickHouse contributor Vitaly Baranov began to introduce robust, full-featured Role Based Access Control (RBAC). As a result of this work–which included a huge number of…
Introducing AES Encryption Functions in ClickHouse®
ClickHouse AES encryption functions give users a powerful tool for data security and privacy. Learn how to use AES encryption in your analytic applications.
ClickHouse® Defense Against the Dark Arts–Intro to Security and Privacy
Security and privacy are critical considerations in modern data warehouses. Join us to learn about ClickHouse security best practices including locking down servers, at-rest and in-flight encryption, and preventing information leaks through logs and system tables.
ClickHouse® is Apache 2.0
Open source licenses are in the news again. Elastic recently changed the licensing for ElasticSearch and Kibana from Apache 2.0 to a choice of Server Side Public License (SSPL) or the non-open source Elastic license. Like most open source licensing…
Connecting to Altinity.Cloud® with the ClickHouse® Web UI
Did you know that ClickHouse has a built-in Web UI? The Web UI is a simple but extremely useful feature Alexey Milovidov added to ClickHouse in October 2020. In this short article I’m going to show you how it works…
Announcing Altinity Documentation for Developers & Administrators
Welcome to a new year and a new present from Altinity! Helping developers create valuable analytics on ClickHouse is our number one priority. To this end, we have created a new documentation site to better support and document our software…