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ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system

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Re: ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system

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> tosh submits 10-20 articles a day That’s kinda sad

I didn't know HN allows someone to posts that much. This would be a full-time job for a person. Hidden motives?

Look at his profile. Dude is available on every platform you can imagine. Some sort of influencer maybe?

Re: ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system

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Their docs intro page is really nice and has a cool gif explanation of row vs column databases. I have never used a column db before and while I kind of knew some of that theory this made it really click for me.

https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/

Re: ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system

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People who've used Clickhouse or other OLAP databases in production & at scale, how do you "interconnect" it with relational data?

I'm currently experimenting with Clickhouse, because my dataflow is increasing in size (40M rows right now, doubling every month or so) and my current setup (MongoDB) is at its limits. I would like to migrate the 40M rows to CH, but I also need the metadata for the rows to be in something more robust like Postgres or Mongo. Would you have a microservice that does the queries between the OLAP and relational DBs and does the join manually, exposing that as some low-level API? Or is using the various FDW options (remote tables in Clickhouse, Postgres clickhouse_fdw, etc.) realistic in production?

Sorry for the ramble, it's late here. But I can clarify if necessary.

Re: ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system

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People who've used Clickhouse or other OLAP databases in production & at scale, how do you "interconnect" it with relational data? I'm currently experimenting with Clickhouse, because my dataflow is increasing in size (40M rows right now, doubling every month or so) and my current setup (MongoDB) is at its limits. I would like to migrate the 40M rows to CH, but I also need the metadata for the rows to be in something…

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Re: ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system

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Great software. We are managing terabytes of stocks data and realtime market scanners queries across all market (billions of books and timesales) with hundreds of concurrent requests.

We were using kdb before, but clickhouse is more scalable, way cheaper and much more easy to grasp for a newbie.

Re: ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system

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tosh submits 10-20 articles a day (yet averages about 1 comment every 2-3 days). There's bound to be some dupes.

Seems like spam. He posted this link earlier, for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_base Not sure what I'm missing but that doesn't seem interesting at all. Almost something a bot would pick randomly.

I'm not very familiar with baseball so the concept of a "stolen base", the rules around it and how they changed over time were a fascinating read for me personally and I thought it might resonate here as well. It seems like it did not.

My heuristic for submitting is when I come across something (in this case ClickHouse) that I find useful or fascinating (a-ha moment) where I also think this might be of interest to others here (filter).

Re: ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system

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post #6

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tosh submits 10-20 articles a day (yet averages about 1 comment every 2-3 days). There's bound to be some dupes.

> tosh submits 10-20 articles a day That’s kinda sad

:(

Re: ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system

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People who've used Clickhouse or other OLAP databases in production & at scale, how do you "interconnect" it with relational data? I'm currently experimenting with Clickhouse, because my dataflow is increasing in size (40M rows right now, doubling every month or so) and my current setup (MongoDB) is at its limits. I would like to migrate the 40M rows to CH, but I also need the metadata for the rows to be in something…

> I also need the metadata for the rows to be in something more robust like Postgres or Mongo.

How big is that metadata? If it's less than tens of millions rows, you can look at External Dictionaries support in clickhouse.

https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/sql-reference/dictionaries/e...

https://altinity.com/blog/2020/5/19/clickhouse-dictionaries-...

Re: ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system

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People who've used Clickhouse or other OLAP databases in production & at scale, how do you "interconnect" it with relational data? I'm currently experimenting with Clickhouse, because my dataflow is increasing in size (40M rows right now, doubling every month or so) and my current setup (MongoDB) is at its limits. I would like to migrate the 40M rows to CH, but I also need the metadata for the rows to be in something…

there is a new Clickhouse Database Engine: "PostgreSQL"

"Allows to connect to databases on a remote PostgreSQL server. Supports read and write operations (SELECT and INSERT queries) to exchange data between ClickHouse and PostgreSQL."

https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/engines/database-engines/pos...

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