What Is ClickHouse, and When Should You Use It?

ClickHouse is an open-source columnar database built for analytics at massive scale. ClickHouse may look like a relational database, but it’s engineered for a fundamentally different purpose than Postgres or MySQL.

This post covers what ClickHouse is, the workloads it is designed for, what it is used for, and when to stay with a traditional relational database instead.

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