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Runbook for Troubleshooting Excessive Logical IOs in ClickHouse

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Excessive Logical I/Os in ClickHouse

Introduction Excessive logical I/Os in ClickHouse is a key reason for slow, sub-optimal, and expensive query performance and compromised scalability. In this detailed guide, we share tips & tricks to monitor and troubleshoot logical I/Os […]

How to Ingest Data from a Kafka topic in ClickHouse

How to use Kafka with ClickHouse?

Shiv Iyer

Introduction Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that can be used to collect, store, and process large streams of data in real-time. ClickHouse is a columnar database that can be used to perform real-time analytical […]

Real-Time Performance Monitoring for ClickHouse Cluster Using Python Script

Shiv Iyer

Introduction There are several ways to monitor the performance of a ClickHouse cluster: Using built-in system tables: ClickHouse has several built-in system tables, such as system.metrics, system.metrics_events, and system.query_log, that provide detailed information about the […]

What are Working Datasets in ClickHouse?

Shiv Iyer

Introduction In ClickHouse, a working dataset refers to a set of data that is stored in memory and used to perform operations such as sorting and aggregation. Working Dataset Types in ClickHouse ClickHouse has several […]

What are the Multiple Data Caches in ClickHouse?

Shiv Iyer

Introduction ClickHouse utilizes multiple data caches to improve query performance. These caches include: Read cache: This cache stores the results of read-only queries. This cache is shared among all clients and is used to avoid […]

How does Checkpointing work in ClickHouse?

Shiv Iyer

Introduction Checkpointing is a process of periodically saving the state of a database system to disk, so that in the event of a failure, the system can be quickly restored to a known good state. […]

ClickHouse Security: How to encrypt Data at Rest in ClickHouse?

Shiv Iyer

Introduction Encrypting data at rest is important because it helps to protect sensitive information in case of a data breach or unauthorized access. When data is at rest, it means that it is stored on […]

How to Avoid Mutations in ClickHouse?

Shiv Iyer

Introduction In ClickHouse, a mutation refers to any operation that modifies the data in the database, including insert, update and delete operations. These operations can affect the integrity of the data and the accuracy of […]

ClickHouse Proxy Server for Read-Write Splitting with Connection Pooling & Query Cache

Shiv Iyer

Introduction I have been a full-time Database Infrastructure Production Engineer for several years, working on MySQL, PostgreSQL and ClickHouse majorly with a deep passion for performance, scalability and Database Reliability Engineering. Most of my work […]

Configuring Asynchronous Inserts in ClickHouse

How to use Asynchronous Inserts in ClickHouse for High Performance Data Loading

Shiv Iyer

Introduction Asynchronous inserts in ClickHouse can be useful in situations where you need to insert a large amount of data into a table and you don’t want to wait for the data to be written […]

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