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ClickHouse

Column-oriented database for analytics

Databases / Data · OSS/MIT · 49.6k

What's Good

Analytics queries that would take minutes in Postgres complete in seconds. Column-oriented storage is perfect for time-series and event data. Compression is aggressive. The SQL dialect is familiar.

The Catch

Not a general-purpose database—updates and deletes are expensive. Operational complexity for self-hosting. The learning curve for optimal schema design is steep.

Verdict

The analytics database when Postgres is too slow.

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