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7 essential tips for a production ClickHouse cluster

What's this blog post about?

The article provides seven essential tips for setting up a production ClickHouse cluster to avoid common mistakes. These include using multiple replicas for data safety and load balancing, ensuring sufficient RAM for optimal performance, choosing the appropriate table engine (preferably MergeTree), limiting primary key columns to three or less for efficient writing operations, avoiding small inserts by batching data, handling duplicate data efficiently, and selectively creating indexes for improved query speed. The author also mentions Managed Service for ClickHouse as a fully managed service from the creators of the database.

Company
DoubleCloud

Date published
July 29, 2024

Author(s)
Vladimir Ivoninskii

Word count
1019

Language
English

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