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Why is ClickHouse so fast? Features that make it lightning fast

What's this blog post about?

ClickHouse is a column-oriented OLAP database known for its remarkable speed in processing complex analytical queries on large datasets. Its columnar storage architecture, data compression and encoding, distributed query execution, materialized views and aggregations, vectorized query execution, and other performance optimizations contribute to its ability to handle large-scale analytical workloads with exceptional speed and efficiency. ClickHouse is a powerful high-speed database for companies with large data arrays, making it well-suited for OLAP workloads that require fast data retrieval and aggregation.

Company
DoubleCloud

Date published
June 14, 2023

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Word count
2502

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Language
English


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