May 2, 2019
ClickHouse is an OLAP database for analytics, so the typical use scenario is processing a relatively small number of requests — from several per hour to many dozens or even low hundreds per second –affecting huge ranges of data (gigabytes/millions of rows).
But how it will behave in other scenarios? Let’s try to use a steam-hammer to crack nuts, and check how ClickHouse will deal with thousands of small requests per second. This will help us to understand the range of possible use cases and limitations better.
This post has two parts. The first part covers connectivity benchmarks and test setup. The next part covers maximum QPS in scenarios involving actual data.