ClickHouse

A column-oriented database built for real-time analytics, scanning billions of rows a second. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.

Category
database engine
Developer
ClickHouse, Inc.
Created by
Alexey Milovidov
First release
2016
License
Apache-2.0
Open source
Yes
Pricing
Free with paid plans
Website
https://clickhouse.com
Written in
C++
Data model
Relational, Time-series
Storage layout
Column-oriented
Workload
Analytics (OLAP)
Analytics architecture
Data warehouse
Query language
SQL
ACID transactions
No
Schema
Strict
Deployment
Server, Distributed cluster, Managed cloud
Scaling
Sharding
Create, read, update, delete
Create: fast (Built for large batch inserts); Read: fast (Very fast aggregations and scans); Update: slow (Mutations rewrite data parts in the background); Delete: moderate (Lightweight deletes hide rows, merges remove them)

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