ClickHouse Comparisons

This cluster focuses on recommendations for ClickHouse as an OLAP database and comparisons of its performance, latency, and suitability against alternatives like Druid, Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Pinot.

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ryadh Nov 30, 2023 View on HN

Have you considered ClickHouse?

otterley Mar 20, 2017 View on HN

What do you think of ClickHouse vis-a-vis Druid and Redshift?

jmakov Sep 9, 2022 View on HN

How does it compare to Clickhouse?

zX41ZdbW Sep 13, 2022 View on HN

How does it compare with ClickHouse?

qaq Sep 20, 2018 View on HN

Would be interesting to see benchmarks vs performant options e.g Vertica and ClickHouse

yamrzou Dec 16, 2021 View on HN

How does Clickhouse compare to Snowflake?

fnord77 Oct 13, 2025 View on HN

How does Clickhouse compare to Druid, Pinot or Star Tree?

emthrowaway123 Mar 21, 2025 View on HN

How does this compare to something like Clickhouse?

lima Apr 30, 2024 View on HN

Use Clickhouse - it's specifically built for this use case (low latency OLAP).

streetcat1 Feb 29, 2020 View on HN

For data warehouse try clickhouse.