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Digital Transformation in Modern Banking with ClickHouse-powered Real-time Analytics

Introduction Internal and external frauds can devastate the digital banking business, both in terms of financial losses and damage to the institution’s reputation. Here are some ways in which internal and external frauds can destroy […]

ClickHouse Performance: Disabling Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in Linux

Shiv Iyer

Introduction Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a memory management feature in the Linux kernel that allows the operating system to manage memory pages more efficiently. It works by grouping smaller memory pages into larger pages, […]

Tuning Linux for ClickHouse Performance

Shiv Iyer

Introduction Tuning the Linux kernel can significantly improve the performance of ClickHouse, a popular open-source columnar database management system. Here are some of the Linux kernel parameters that can be tuned to optimize ClickHouse performance: […]

ClickHouse Troubleshooting: Avoiding Excessive Disk Swaps

Shiv Iyer

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 […]

Implementing Chebyshev's Inequality in ClickHouse

Data Science in ClickHouse: How to implement Chebyshev’s Inequality?

Shiv Iyer

Introduction Chebyshev’s inequality is a statistical theorem that provides a bound on the probability that a random variable deviates from its mean by more than a certain number of standard deviations. Specifically, it states that […]

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 […]

How to Configure Global Process Area Parameters in ClickHouse

ClickHouse Memory: How to Configure Global Process Area Parameters

Shiv Iyer

Introduction In ClickHouse, the global process area is implemented as a shared-memory segment that is shared between all instances of the ClickHouse server running on the same machine. This shared-memory segment is used to store […]

Using EXPLAIN to Determine JOIN Order in ClickHouse Query Execution Plan

ClickHouse EXPLAIN: Determine JOIN Order in Query Execution Plan

Shiv Iyer

Introduction In ClickHouse, the join order in an execution plan is determined by the query optimizer, which analyzes the query and generates an optimal plan for executing the query. The optimizer uses statistics about the […]

Using TOP Command to Measure ClickHouse Server Load & Queue Length

Shiv Iyer

Introduction Measuring load and queue length of ClickHouse Server is important for troubleshooting performance bottleneck. The load is a measure of the amount of work that ClickHouse is currently doing or is capable of doing. […]

How to Monitor & Troubleshoot Log Contention in ClickHouse

Shiv Iyer

Introduction Log contention in ClickHouse occurs when multiple write operations compete for the same log file, causing performance issues and potentially leading to data corruption. Here are some steps you can take to troubleshoot and […]

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