AI Toys in the Attic: Our favorite AI tools and techniques for ClickHouse®
LLMs and ClickHouse: Altinity MCP server, Skills-based cluster health checks, Grafana dashboard demo, and OAuth 2.0 guardrails to keep AI agents read-only.
CVEs, ClickHouse®, and Altinity.Cloud: Separating Signal from Noise
Got a Critical CVE against ClickHouse? A practical framework to assess real risk across container packages, network exposure, and access control.
Making ClickHouse® safe for AI: Using OAuth in Altinity Builds
Learn how ClickHouse® gains full OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) support through Altinity’s Antalya builds, enabling token-based authentication, single sign-on, and secure AI agent access, with live demos using Grafana, Keycloak, and Claude via the Altinity MCP server.
DeepSeek, ClickHouse®, and the Altinity Kubernetes Operator: A Twisted Tale
DeepSeek’s ClickHouse servers had a vulnerability. ClickHouse core shipped a fix that affected Altinity’s Kubernetes Operator. Here’s the story.
Taking ClickHouse® User Authentication to the Next Level: Multiple Authentication Methods Support
One of the challenges in database security is ensuring that user credentials remain secure over time. ClickHouse’s support for multiple authentication methods makes a DBA’s life easier.
Locking Down ClickHouse® Networking (Part 2)
In the second part of this series, we’ll look at how to enable secure connections using SSL and learn how to lock down the server’s access by filtering the hosts and networks from which connections can be made to our…
Locking Down ClickHouse® Networking (Part 1)
Security is not a trivial topic; it is affected by many configuration settings that can be defined for ClickHouse. In part 1 of this series, we identify what ports are opened by default, compiled a list of all the ports…
Using S3 Storage and ClickHouse®: Basic and Advanced Wizardry
Learn how to configure ClickHouse® for S3 object storage, from basic disk and tiered storage setup through advanced topics including caching, zero-copy replication, and querying Parquet files in a data lake. Altinity CEO Robert Hodges and CTO Alexander Zaitsev share…