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by FridgeSeal 1632 days ago
From the article:

> Rockset joined in, saying its performance is was better for real-time analytics than the other two.

So I went and read the linked Rockset comparison blog post, and while I get that it’s a marketing piece, it’s also so transparently desperate for any advantage over Druid and ClickHouse that their criteria is bizarre at best, and bordering on wildly incorrect at worst.

I’ve been burnt by commercial databases before, and I have a hard time justifying ever using one, especially considering the advent of open source databases that have feature and performance parity (if not outright superiority) and can be self-hosted on K8s, or managed-hosting can be easily purchased.
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mritchie712 1632 days ago
Altinity is doing a good job of this with Clickhouse. They offer some decent open source guides for self hosting[0] and offer a hosted option. The hosted option is as self serve as I'd like (you have to get "approved").

0 - https://github.com/Altinity/clickhouse-operator and

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FridgeSeal 1632 days ago
Yeah I’ve been paying attention to the Altinity stuff for a while, they’ve got some good stuff.

I think we’ll get even more hosting options now that ClickHouse is it’s own backing company.

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hodgesrm 1631 days ago
Thank you all for the very kind words about Altinity. We have always assumed that the ClickHouse market would be "crowded." By my count there are at least 7 cloud services based on ClickHouse. It's 8 if you include Firebolt, which embeds ClickHouse. There are even more hosting options on the way for ClickHouse, including clickhouse.com but also others. This is clearly going to be a competitive market with many outstanding alternatives for users.

We have a bunch of ideas at Altinity about how to make ClickHouse even more pervasive. Stay tuned in 2022.

Disclaimer: I am CEO of Altinity.

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