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by dusanstanojevic 32 days ago
Clickhouse is just a database, it has a really neat feature that infrequently accessed data is pushed back to S3 minimizing the costs. It also heavily compresses the data when storing it.

I am the creator of Traceway and it's my all time fav database. Having said that the repositories in Traceway are completely modular, I've implemented the sqlite version so that I can skip docker containers locally and to simplify self hosting for side projects (it runs on like 2$ servers without issues). This is why it's uniquely suitable for telemetry data and why I've used it as the base of Traceway.

They've acquired HyperDX because it was a major Clickhouse user because their whole platform was telemetry on top of Clickhouse. I hope they don't fully pivot into the space as it would be quite awkward, but there are alternatives and I can always redo repositories with a diff storage engine/db.