ClickHouse Crushing Time Series

ClickHouse Crushing Time Series

Nov 15, 2018

Once upon a time we spotted TSBS (https://github.com/timescale/tsbs) — Time Series Benchmark Suite, started by InfluxDB engineers and polished to perfection by TimescaleDB team. The suite allows to compare apples-to-apples when testing different databases: it is a framework to generate test data, load it to different databases, run test queries, and collect statistics to analyse. We could not resist adding ClickHouse to the list of supported databases. It turned out that ClickHouse — being a general purpose analytical DBMS — stands very well against proven time series databases. Those benchmarks highlighted strengths and weaknesses of different technologies. Interested? Let’s dig into details.