ClickHouse Engineering Archives

ClickHouse BYOC with ChistaDATA: The Complete 2026 Architecture Guide

ClickHouse BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) is a deployment model in which the entire ClickHouse® data plane runs inside your cloud account and your VPC, while ChistaDATA operates, tunes, secures and supports that cluster through […]

ClickHouse MergeTree Optimization: Sort Keys, Partitioning, Skip Indexes, and Projections

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ClickHouse MergeTree optimization is the difference between a table that answers analytical queries in milliseconds and one that scans hundreds of gigabytes for every request. This guide is written for senior engineers who already understand […]

20 Things You Should Not Do With ClickHouse Which Will Destroy ClickHouse Performance

ChistaDATA Inc.

ClickHouse is one of the fastest open source columnar databases for real-time analytics, and it powers observability platforms, product analytics, and large-scale reporting workloads across the industry. Yet raw speed can be deceptive. Many teams […]

multi-region ClickHouse deployment architecture showing distributed cluster replication : Sharding and Resharding Strategies

Designing Multi-Region ClickHouse Deployments for Global Scale: 3 Best Patterns

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ClickHouse multi-region deployment is one of the most architecturally demanding problems in distributed analytics. When your users span three continents, a single-region cluster becomes a latency ceiling, a compliance liability, and a single point of […]

ClickHouse Performance Pitfalls: 7 Mistakes That Slow Down Your Queries and How to Fix Them

ChistaDATA Inc.

ClickHouse has earned a well-deserved reputation as one of the fastest analytical databases available today. Its columnar storage, vectorized query execution, and aggressive compression make it a natural choice for teams dealing with hundreds of […]

ClickHouse Primary Index Design: Parts, Partitions and Granules

ChistaDATA Inc.

A practitioner’s deep dive into MergeTree internals — parts, partitions, granules, and primary index design — from the ChistaDATA engineering team.

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