ClickHouse Unleashed 2020: Our Favorite New Features for Your Analytical Applications
August 6, 2020 with Alexander Zaitsev and Robert Hodges Curious what's new in ClickHouse? This talk is for you! Join us to learn about new features of ClickHouse, ranging from tiered storage to compact MergeTree format to SQL join improvements. We'll also preview new features like object storage and LDAP support planned for the remainder of 2020. Finally, we'll discuss Altinity Stable Releases and how they help you decide when features are ready for production use. Don't miss this opportunity to get current on ClickHouse improvements to help you build even better analytics!
Read MoreAdventures in Observability: How In-House ClickHouse Deployment Enabled Instana to Build Better Monitoring for Users
July 9, 2020 with Marcel Birkner, Yoann Buch and Robert Hodges Instana is an Application Performance Monitoring solution that provides complete visibility into complex distributed systems, including ClickHouse servers. In this webinar, we welcome Marcel Birkner and Yoann Buch of Instana. They describe how the Instana team uses ClickHouse to power their solution, lessons they have learned, and how they integrated them back into Instana's own ClickHouse monitoring features. Along the way, you'll learn how to set up Instana on ClickHouse, what important metrics you should track, how ClickHouse is integrated in end-to-end distributed tracing, and what level of automation is available for root cause analysis and alerting.
Read MoreBig Data and Beautiful Video: How ClickHouse enables Mux to Deliver Content at Scale
June 23, 2020 with Adam Brown and Robert Hodges Mux.com enables content providers to stream video to vast audiences while maintaining pin-point control over performance. Join us as Adam Brown, a co-founder of Mux and video expert, explains the role that ClickHouse plays in content delivery. We'll start with an overview of the Mux platform and the importance of real-time feedback. We'll then discuss key features of ClickHouse that enable it to ingest live session data and provide real-time dashboards to Mux users. Finally, we'll talk a bit about the Mux journey to ClickHouse and lessons learned along the way about how data enables content delivery networks.
Read MoreBig Data in Real-Time: How ClickHouse powers Admiral’s visitor relationships for publishers
Advertising is dying in the wake of privacy and adblockers. Join us for a conversation with James Hartig, a Co-Founder at Admiral (getadmiral.com), who helps publishers diversify their revenue and build more meaningful relationships with users. We'll start with an overview of Admiral's platform and how they use large scale session data to power their engagement engine. We'll then discuss the ClickHouse features that Admiral uses to power these real-time decisions. Finally, we'll walk through how Admiral migrated from MongoDB to ClickHouse and some of their plans for future projects. Join us to learn how ClickHouse drives cutting edge real-time applications today!
Read MoreMORE secrets of ClickHouse Query Performance
May 27, 2020
with Robert Hodges
ClickHouse is famously fast, but a small amount of extra work makes it much faster. Join us for the latest version of our popular talk on single-node ClickHouse performance. We start by examining the system log to see what ClickHouse queries are doing. Then we introduce standard tricks to increase speed: adding CPUs, reducing I/O with filters, restructuring joins, adding indexes, and using materialized views, plus many more. In each case we show how to measure the results of your work. There will as usual be time for questions as well at the end. Sign up now to polish your ClickHouse performance skills!
Strength in Numbers. Introduction to ClickHouse Cluster Performance
April 29, 2020
with Robert Hodges
ClickHouse clusters apply the power of dozens or even hundreds of nodes to vast datasets. In this webinar we'll show you how to use the basic tools of replication and sharding to create high performance ClickHouse clusters. We'll study the plumbing of inserts into sharded datasets and how to determine the correct number of shards for your desired writes. We'll similarly look at distributed queries and show how to scale read capacity to desired levels using replicas. Finally, we'll look at techniques for scaling up both shards and replicas to accommodate growth in your dataset.
Webinar: ClickHouse Monitoring 101. What to monitor and how
April 1, 2020
with Robert Hodges and Ned McClain
You are about to deploy ClickHouse into production. Congratulations! But what about monitoring? In this webinar we will introduce how to track the health of individual ClickHouse nodes as well as clusters. We'll describe available monitoring data, how to collect and store measurements, and graphical display using Grafana. We'll demo techniques and share sample Grafana dashboards that you can use for your own clusters.
Webinar. ClickHouse Materialized Views. The Magic Continues
February 26, 2020
with Robert Hodges
Materialized views are the killer feature of ClickHouse, and the Altinity 2019 webinar on how they work was very popular. Join this updated webinar to learn how to use materialized views to speed up queries hundreds of times. We'll cover basic design, last point queries, using TTLs to drop source data, counting unique values, and other useful tricks. Finally, we'll cover recent improvements that make materialized views more useful than ever. See you there!
Fast Insight from Fast Data. Integrating ClickHouse and Apache Kafka
January 21, 2020
with Robert Hodges and Mikhail Filimonov
Apache Kafka is a popular way to load large data volumes quickly to ClickHouse. In this webinar we will cover best practices for integrating Kafka and ClickHouse including setup of Kafka clusters, defining materialized views to pull data into ClickHouse, and organization of target tables. We will also cover alternatives like writing your own connector applications. Altinity is now the community maintainer for ClickHouse Kafka. Our lead Kafka engineer Mikhail Filimonov will be in the webinar to share the latest tips for successful Kafka use. Please join us and bring your questions!
Webinar: A Practical Introduction to Handling Log Data in ClickHouse
December 17, 2019
with Robert Hodges
Log messages are one of the most important types of application data. ClickHouse is very good at storing log data; many SaaS applications use it under the covers. In this webinar we will show examples of different application logs and how to design tables to store them. Options include using typed columns, strings, JSON, or key-value pair arrays. We'll also discuss how materialized columns to improve filter speed, as well as techniques to tune index granularity for wide rows. This is the first in a series of webinars on log management. Future webinars will cover tools to load data as well as techniques to retrieve log information efficiently.
Webinar: Tips and tricks every ClickHouse user should know.
December 3 , 2019
with Robert Hodges
New users of ClickHouse love the speed but may run into a few surprises when designing applications. Column storage turns classic SQL design precepts on their heads. This talk shares our favorite tricks for building great applications. We'll talk about fact tables and dimensions, materialized views, codecs, arrays, and skip indexes, to name a few of our favorites. We'll show examples of each and also reserve time to handle questions. Join us to take your next step to ClickHouse guruhood!
Webinar: Adding Fast Analytics to MySQL Applications with ClickHouse
October 10 , 2019
with Robert Hodges
Successful MySQL applications have a very common scale problem: how to provide analytics when data grows too large for MySQL to handle. Fortunately, there is a good answer. ClickHouse is a popular, open source column store you can use to add fast analytics to MySQL applications. We'll start with an introduction to ClickHouse for MySQL users showing familiar SQL syntax and table engine design. We'll then walk through important features like support for MySQL wire protocol, ability to read data directly from MySQL tables, and different ways to move data from MySQL into ClickHouse. Finally, we'll touch on design approaches that allow you to extend MySQL applications with analytics that can handle billions of rows.
