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ClickHouse Troubleshooting: Avoiding Excessive Disk Swaps

Introduction Disk swapping is a technique used by operating systems to manage memory usage when the amount of available physical memory is limited. When the operating system runs out of available physical memory, it uses […]

Runbook for Zero Downtime ClickHouse Upgrades

Shiv Iyer

Introduction In the world of data analytics and high-performance databases, ClickHouse stands out for its speed, efficiency, and scalability. As organizations increasingly rely on real-time data processing and analytics, the need for maintaining continuous availability […]

Data Science in ClickHouse: Skewed Q-Q Plots

Shiv Iyer

Monitoring Query Latency due to Wait and Latch Events in ClickHouse

Shiv Iyer

Introduction In ClickHouse, you can monitor query latency and waits/latches using the system.query_log and system.metrics tables. Here is an example query that can be used to monitor query latency and wait/latch events: This query selects […]

Overview of information_schema Tables In Clickhouse

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Introduction ClickHouse is an open-source columnar database management system that is designed for real-time data processing and analytics. One of the unique features of ClickHouse is its use of the information_schema database, which provides a […]

Streaming ClickHouse Data to Kafka

ChistaDATA Inc.

Introduction ClickHouse has an inbuilt Kafka table engine which is commonly used to read streaming messages from Apache Kafka and store it in ClickHouse. This is one of the important and widely used features of […]

ClickHouse Live Views to Compute Real-time Moving Averages

ClickHouse Materialized Views: Using Live Views to Compute Real-time Moving Averages

Shiv Iyer

Introduction ClickHouse Live Views can be used to compute real-time moving averages efficiently. Here’s how: Conclusion By using ClickHouse Live Views and defining the appropriate query, settings, and subscription, you can efficiently compute real-time moving […]

Benchmarking ClickHouse using the clickhouse-benchmark Tool

ChistaDATA Inc.

Introduction ClickHouse is a popular open-source analytical database management system that is designed to handle massive amounts of data. It has been adopted by many companies for its excellent performance, low latency, and scalability. However, […]

How does ClickHouse Merge Sort Algorithm work?

Shiv Iyer

Introduction ClickHouse uses a merge-sort algorithm to sort data internally. The merge-sort algorithm works by dividing the data into smaller blocks, sorting each block individually, and then merging the sorted blocks together to produce the […]

ClickHouse Monitoring: Configuring ClickHouse Server Logs in JSON Format

ChistaDATA Inc.

Introduction ClickHouse is a fast, open-source column-oriented database used to analyze large amounts of data. One of the key features of ClickHouse is its support for logging server activity in JSON format, which allows easy […]

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