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by pests 422 days ago
I remember a few years ago when the views on Clickhouse was it some "legacy" "bulky" and used by "the big guys" and not very much discussion or opinions of it in spaces like this. Seems like its come a long way.
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Lots of Google analytics competitors appeared between 2017 and 2023 due to privacy reasons. And a lot of them started with normal Postgres or MySQL then switched to Clickhouse or simply started with Clickhouse knowing they could scale far better.

At least in terms of capability and reputation it was already well known by 2021 and certainly not legacy or bulky. At least on HN clickhouse is very often submitted and reached front page. Compared to MySQL when I tried multiple times no one is interested.

Edit: On another note Umami is finally supporting Clickhouse! [1], Not sure how they implementing it because it still requires Postgres. But it should hopefully be a lot more scalable.

[1] https://github.com/umami-software/umami/issues/3227

Perhaps not legacy/bulky buy it maybe... enterprisey? I just remember having the same reaction to CH as to hearing Oracle.
Or may be Heavy duty? Although I remember a lot of people were sceptical of CH simply because it came from Yandex from Russia. And that was before the war.
Clickhouse earned that reputation. However, it was spun out of Yandex in 2021. That kickstarted a new wave of development and it’s gotten much better.
Ah that must explain a lot of it.