Materialized Views

    Using Joins in ClickHouse® Materialized Views

    ClickHouse materialized views provide a powerful way to restructure data in ClickHouse. We have discussed their capabilities many times in webinars, blog articles, and conference talks. One of the most common follow-on questions we receive is whether materialized views can…

    ClickHouse® Materialized Views Illuminated, Part 2

    In the previous blog post on materialized views, we introduced a way to construct ClickHouse materialized views that compute sums and counts using the SummingMergeTree engine. The SummingMergeTree can use normal SQL syntax for both types of aggregates. We also let…

    ClickHouse® Materialized Views Illuminated, Part 1

    Readers of the Altinity blog know we love ClickHouse materialized views. Materialized views can compute aggregates, read data from Kafka, implement last point queries, and reorganize table primary indexes and sort order. Beyond these functional capabilities, materialized views scale well…