Articles by ChistaDATA Inc.

About ChistaDATA Inc.

We are an full-stack ClickHouse infrastructure operations Consulting, Support and Managed Services provider with core expertise in performance, scalability and data SRE. Based out of California, Our consulting and support engineering team operates out of San Francisco, Vancouver, London, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Australia, Singapore and India to deliver 24*7 enterprise-class consultative support and managed services. We operate very closely with some of the largest and planet-scale internet properties like PayPal, Garmin, Honda cars IoT project, Viacom, National Geographic, Nike, Morgan Stanley, American Express Travel, VISA, Netflix, PRADA, Blue Dart, Carlsberg, Sony, Unilever etc

Introducing ChistaDATA Fabric

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Introduction Specialization is a natural outcome, and indeed, a telltale sign of system evolution. It enables large use cases to be deeply solved by standalone pieces of technology, achieving cost-efficiency and performance gains that would […]

Migrating From Google BigQuery to ChistaDATA Cloud for ClickHouse: Part 1

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Introduction BigQuery is Google‘s fully managed, serverless data warehouse that enables scalable analysis over petabytes of data. – Wikipedia Google BigQuery has been around for over a decade and offers serverless / fully managed solutions for data warehouse/ analytical […]

ClickHouse Winter 2024 Release – v24.2

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Introduction Each new release includes new features, improvements, and numerous bug fixes, and the ChistaDATA team is always on top of the latest releases. On 29th February 2024, ClickHouse version 24.2 (February 2024) was released, […]

Workload Scheduling In ClickHouse

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Introduction Workload scheduling is a sophisticated method to efficiently manage resources among various tasks in ClickHouse. This technique is crucial for balancing different workloads, such as production and development tasks, ensuring optimal resource allocation and […]

The Five Principles of Customer-Aligned Pricing in OLAP Database Systems

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Introduction For any software company, the pursuit of LTV, an acronym for the Life Time Value of a customer, is the ultimate north star. Database systems companies in & of themselves tend to have the […]

ClickHouse January 2024 Release – v24.1

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Introduction Every new release includes new features, enhancements, and numerous bug fixes, and the ChistaDATA team always stays on top of the latest releases. On January 30, 2024, ClickHouse version 24.1 was released, and this […]

Why is Snowflake so Expensive?

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Introduction Snowflake Inc. is possibly the most influential database software company in the modern world, after Oracle. The biggest technology IPO in history, it has raced to the hallowed $3B ARR mark demonstrating strong compounding […]

Machine Learning With ClickHouse: Logistic Regression

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Introduction In the earlier blog article, we have seen the basics of Linear Regression and how to perform linear regression on data present in ClickHouse. In this article, let us look at an example of […]

How to Avoid the Linux OOM Killer in ClickHouse

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Introduction In numerous instances, this indicates an out-of-memory scenario. ClickHouse started utilizing excessive memory, prompting Linux to terminate it to avert system instability. The responsible Linux process for this action is the Out-of-Memory Killer, also […]

Why is ClickHouse so fast?

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Introduction Online Analytical Processing Since Michael Stonebraker’s seminal 1986 paper that introduced POSTGRES (and consequently PostgreSQL) to the world, the relational database management system (RDBMS) has been synonymous with the word “database” and indeed the […]