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ClickHouse

Column-oriented OLAP database for real-time analytics

40.0K stars 1.0K contributors Since 2020
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Column-oriented OLAP database for real-time analytics

License
Apache-2.0
Min RAM
4 GB
Min CPUs
4 cores
Scaling
distributed
Complexity
advanced
Performance
medium
Self-hostable
K8s native
Offline
Pricing
fully free
Docs quality
good
Vendor lock-in
none

Use cases

  • Primary use: real-time-dashboards
  • Primary use: log-analytics
  • Primary use: time-series-analytics

Compare with alternatives

Replaces / alternatives to

  • BigQuery
  • Snowflake
  • Redshift

Technical specs

Language
C++
API type
REST
Protocols
HTTP
Data model
column
Deployment
dockeraptbinary

Community

GitHub stars 40.0K
Contributors 1.0K
Commit frequency weekly
Plugin ecosystem none
Backing ClickHouse Inc
Funding vc_backed

Release

Latest version
Last release
Since 2020

Best fit

Team size
solosmallmediumenterprise
Industries
general

Tags

  • columnar
  • olap
  • real-time-analytics
  • compression
  • vectorized-execution