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ClickHouse

ClickHouse

Real-time analytics database

ClickHouse is a column-oriented database for real-time analytics on large datasets. Blazing fast for aggregation queries with open-source and cloud options.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

Sub-second queries on billions of rows. The compression and query performance are genuinely impressive.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Ship

For real-time analytics at scale, nothing beats ClickHouse on price-performance. The open-source version is production-ready.

The Futurist

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

Real-time analytics is becoming standard. ClickHouse is the engine powering the observability and analytics revolution.

Community Sentiment

Overall2,472 mentions
75% positive17% neutral8% negative
Hacker News521 mentions
78%14%8%

ClickHouse is absurdly fast — we went from Postgres taking minutes to ClickHouse doing the same query in under a second

Reddit743 mentions
75%17%8%

If you're doing any kind of analytics at scale and not using ClickHouse you're leaving a lot of performance on the table

Twitter/X980 mentions
71%20%9%

ClickHouse Cloud makes the self-hosting pain disappear — finally easy to adopt for smaller teams

Product Hunt228 mentions
80%14%6%

Benchmarks don't lie — it absolutely destroys the competition for OLAP workloads