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by avereveard 1352 days ago
Is lower time the right metric here? Seems normalizing per price would make a more useful metric for big data as long as the response time is reasonable
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Yes, ClickBench results are presented as Relative Time, where lower is better. You can read more on the specifics of ClickBench methodology in the GitHub repository here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/

There are other responses from ClickHouse in the comments on the pricing, so I'll defer to their expertise on that topic there. Thank you for your feedback and ideas, as normalizing a price-based benchmark is an interesting concept (and where ClickHouse would expect to lead also given the architecture and efficiency)

This benchmark focuses on analytical query latency for representative analytical queries, so yes - lower number is better.