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Avoiding Costly Mistakes: Profile Events and Query Traces in a Single ClickHouse Query

Effortlessly Profile Events and Query Traces in a Single ClickHouse Query ClickHouse’s exceptional performance in analytical workloads comes with the challenge of understanding and optimizing complex query execution patterns. When queries don’t perform as expected, […]

When ClickHouse Queries Get “Stuck”

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When ClickHouse Queries Get “Stuck”: Detecting, Analyzing, and Safely Killing Problematic Sessions ClickHouse is a high-performance columnar database management system designed for online analytical processing (OLAP). While it excels at handling large-scale data analytics workloads, […]

Monitoring Merge Queues in ClickHouse

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Monitoring Merge Queues in ClickHouse: Detecting and Resolving Merge Pressure ClickHouse, renowned for its high-performance columnar storage and analytical query capabilities, relies heavily on its underlying Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM-Tree) architecture to achieve exceptional write throughput […]

Using system.query_thread_log for Low-Level ClickHouse Performance Insights

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Using system.query_thread_log in ClickHouse for Low-Level Performance Insights Introduction to Thread-Level Query Analysis In the realm of high-performance analytical databases, ClickHouse stands out for its ability to process massive datasets at lightning speed. However, as […]

Troubleshooting ClickHouse in Kubernetes

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Introduction: Troubleshooting ClickHouse in Kubernetes This knowledge base provides a foundational guide for administrators and developers to troubleshoot ClickHouse instances running on Kubernetes pods within an AWS EKS environment. By following these steps, users can […]

ClickHouse Complete Guide to LowCardinality

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ClickHouse Complete Guide to LowCardinality: When and How to Use It Introduction ClickHouse, the high-performance columnar database management system, offers a specialized data type called LowCardinality that serves as a powerful optimization tool for specific […]

ClickHouse Storage Tiering Best Practices: Moving Data Between Hot and Cold Storage with TTL

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ClickHouse Storage Tiering Best Practices: Moving Data Between Hot and Cold Storage with TTL Efficient data management is critical for modern analytical databases, especially when dealing with large volumes of time-series or event-driven data. ClickHouse, […]

Troubleshooting Disk Space in ClickHouse

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Troubleshooting Disk Space Issues: Managing ClickHouse Log Tables ClickHouse is a high-performance, columnar database management system optimized for real-time analytical workloads. While its speed and scalability make it ideal for large-scale data processing, one common […]

ClickHouse Search: Manticore Full Text Search with Plain Index

Essential ClickHouse Metrics

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Essential ClickHouse Metrics: What to Monitor for Optimal Performance ClickHouse, the high-performance columnar database management system, exposes over 1,000 metrics for monitoring and observability 5. With such an extensive array of available metrics, selecting the […]

ClickHouse Search: Case-sensitive Searches with UPPER & LOWER Functions

Boosting Materialized View Performance

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Aggregation States: Boosting Materialized View Performance by 10x in ClickHouse ClickHouse has long been celebrated for its lightning-fast analytical query performance, especially when handling massive datasets in real time. One of the most powerful features […]