New Encodings to Improve ClickHouse Efficiency

New Encodings to Improve ClickHouse Efficiency

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…

Compression in ClickHouse

It might not be obvious from the start, but ClickHouse supports different kinds of compressions, namely two LZ4 and ZSTD.