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by AdamProut 1340 days ago
Clickhouse is great a single table analytical queries (Group-by + aggregates + filters over a single table). It can match any top tier columnstore database at this, maybe even better at smaller scales, and if that is all you need it will do the job well

Beyond this, it has a naive query optimizer and limited ability to run distributed joins. This is why you won't find well known analytical benchmark results like TPC-H and TPC-DS for clickhouse vs other SQL data warehouses.

SinglestoreDB has been doing real time analytics much longer then clickhouse and has a much more mature feature set at this point[1][2]. Our go to market is more big enterprise driven so we are definitely much less well known among developers. Revenue share-wise I suspect we are the leader in real time analytics (see disclaimer below - I'm biased but our revenue is reaching thresholds for IPO readiness).

Also, if you follow Jacks later posts you'll see he replaces DynamoDB and Redis with SinglestoreDB as well. Now were getting into places Clickhouse doesn't tread at all...

Disclaimer: I'm one of the cofounders of MemSQL/SingleStoreDB (still working away on making it better all these years later...).

[1] https://www.singlestore.com/blog/the-technical-capabilities-...

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3514221.3526055

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Can you provide SingleStore result for TPC-H and TPC-DS? I can't find it. Why? [1] https://www.tpc.org/tpcds/results/tpcds_results5.asp?orderby... [2] https://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_results5.asp?orderby=d... Disclaimer: I work for ClickHouse
Almost no one does "official" TPC results these days (maybe other then Oracle and some of the Chinese vendors).

Most other cloud DWs have public TPC-H or TPC-DS results that are easily googlable. Clickhouse is missing for a reason...

  - https://research.gigaom.com/report/data-warehouse-cloud-benchmark/
  - https://www.databricks.com/blog/2021/11/02/databricks-sets-official-data-warehousing-performance-record.html
  - https://celerdata.com/blog/starrocks-queries-outperform-clickhouse-apache-druid-and-trino
  - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/amazon-redshift-continues-its-price-performance-leadership/
Our results are here: https://www.singlestore.com/blog/tpc-benchmarking-results/