2021 has been a great year for Altinity.Cloud. Cloud users have grown to almost a third of our total subscription base. During that time both we and our customers have absorbed lessons on using ClickHouse effectively in the cloud. So what have we learned? …

ARM processors are hot. Amazon AWS and Apple have been building their own ARM processors for a few years already. They use them in servers and notebooks and get outstanding results. Ampere builds server-class ARM processors for everybody else. At Altinity we could not stand aside from this A-march. Today…

As regular readers of this blog are aware, Altinity.Cloud now supports Google Cloud Platform, also known as GCP. I recently took the new capability out for a spin to see what it’s like to run ClickHouse there. Spoiler: it’s virtually identical to running on AWS, which we’ve supported since 2020…

ClickHouse testing is easy with Altinity.Cloud. Users can quickly experiment with different things. Adjusting server settings, changing instance types or ClickHouse versions, adding shards and replicas, sharing data between ClickHouse clusters — all these tools are important components of application development and performance tuning. In this article, we will explain…

Altinity is excited to announce OSA Con, a new conference on open source analytics. We will bring together developers of open source analytic projects with developers who use open source in analytic applications. OSA Con will take place online on November 2nd, 2021. It’s free. …

With the announcement of the Altinity Tableau Connector for ClickHouse, we wanted to take the opportunity to show off some handy Tableau tips and tricks for making some very cool charts based off of ClickHouse data. We know that setting up your own ClickHouse test server with sample data can…

In our previous blog posts, we explained the various ways that ClickHouse can use S3 object storage. To keep things simple we generally focused on single-node operation. However, ClickHouse often runs in a cluster, and cluster operation poses some interesting questions regarding S3 usage. They include parallelizing data load across…

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a repost of “Performance marketing is as strong as your data platform” in the LifeStreet blog originally written by Alexander Zaitsev, Altinity CTO. We live in a rapidly changing world. The ability to discover and apply business-critical insights from petabyte datasets in real-time is now a…

Window functions have long been a top feature request in ClickHouse. Thanks to excellent work by Alexander Kuzmenkov, ClickHouse now has experimental support, and users can begin to try them out. Naturally we did the same at Altinity. In fact, we tested the functionality extensively to find what currently works…