Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to ClickHouse
ClickHouse is a free analytic DBMS for big data.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ClickHouse launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Me with my friend Vitaly Ludvichenko made an experiment to combine ClickHouse server and client to make a self-contained program running a database engine and processing data without a server: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/150 Development continued in the past 6 years, and now clickhouse-local becomes a swiss-army knife for data processing. Say "ffmpeg" for datasets and more. It can resemble textql, octosql, dsq, duckdb, trdsql, q, datafusion-cli, spyql, but has better capabilities and performance. Here is a tutorial:…
2023 · clickhouse.com · its alternatives →
- 3SO
Hello! For the past year I’ve been working on a fully-managed data warehouse built on Clickhouse. I built this because I was frustrated with how much work was required to run an OLAP database in prod: re-writing my app to do batch inserts, managing clusters and needing to look up special CREATE TABLE syntax every time I made a change. I found pricing for other warehouses confusing (what is a “credit” exactly?) and worried about getting capacity-planning wrong. I was previously building accounting software for firms with millions of transactions. I desperately needed to move from Postgres to…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, We are excited to announce that we’ve open-sourced AGX, a fast and lightweight data explorer for ClickHouse. It is designed for developers and analysts who want to leverage SQL-native querying in an IDE-like environment. Here’s what makes AGX stand out: - Built on ClickHouse (accessible via embedded chdb or remote instance). - IDE-like user interface: features tabs, a Monaco editor, and a fast keyboard workflow. - Zero setup required: no infrastructure or complex dashboards to manage. - Ideal for exploring live blockchain data, while also flexible enough for general ClickHouse usage…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ClickUp 4.0▲674All your work: tasks, docs, chat, and AI with 100% context
Dec 2025 · clickup.com · its alternatives →
- 8CO
Thought i'd share some recent work i'd done after being generally frustrated as to the available analytics for Python modules. Most seem to be either limited in time or incur charges to query. Code is Apache 2 at https://github.com/clickHouse/clickpy The downloads for Python modules are actually available in BigQuery - a row for every package download in the world. Last time i checked it's the largest BigQuery public dataset at almost 700b rows. Wanting to do some serious analytics led to a few frustrations though: - speed for queries - BigQuery is great for complex SQL,…
2023 · clickpy.clickhouse.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Mike & Warren here from HyperDX (now part of ClickHouse)! We’ve been building ClickStack, an open source observability stack that helps you collect, centralize, search/viz/alert on your telemetry (logs, metrics, traces) in just a few minutes - all powered by ClickHouse (Apache2) for storage, HyperDX (MIT) for visualization and OpenTelemetry (Apache2) for ingestion. You can check out the quick start for spinning things up in the repo here: https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx ClickStack makes it really easy to instrument your application so you can go…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · houseplant.readthedocs.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, My name is JR and I had a need for a simple analytics solution that allowed me to store (timestamp, json) logs and run SQL over them. It was hard to find the right solution. Solutions like Mixpanel and Amplitude optimized for particular report types. Whereas solutions like Snowflake, BigQuery, etc. required a lot of setup. I built GraphJSON to fit in the middle. I strived for the ease of use of tools like Mixpanel and Amplitude, but wanted to ensure affordances were built to support use cases that big data warehouses enable. Under the hood, GraphJSON is powered by ClickHouse. This…
2022 · graphjson.com · its alternatives →
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Tinybird Code▲119The AI ClickHouse® expert you don't have to hire
2025 · tinybird.co · its alternatives →
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While building an IoT telemetry solution, we ran into hurdles with Clickhouse. For one, you can't insert quickly AND durably into Clickhouse without setting up something like Kafka, which gets complicated for quick projects wanting to make use of Clickhouse's powerful features. Then, trying to actually query Clickhouse and show data in a UI required a whole backend API to handle auth and permissions. We figured that all these parts together – fast, durable ingest, row-level and column-level security and roles, and realtime streaming – were a lot of scaffolding to have to rebuild for every…
22d ago · wavehouse.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Marc. I run Numia, a blockchain data company serving real-time APIs at near-petabyte scale. ObsessionDB is managed ClickHouse we built for ourselves that costs roughly 50% less than other managed options. Now we're launching it as a standalone service. We had the classic split: ClickHouse for real-time analytics APIs, BigQuery for data warehouse workloads. Data replicated between both, costs adding up. Managed ClickHouse worked but was too expensive to put our warehouse workload into. Self-hosted meant replica nodes doubling storage and waiting days to copy 25TB to new replicas.…
Jan 2026 · obsessiondb.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · try.questdb.io · its alternatives →
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A fast, fully managed, scalable NoSQL database service
2015 · its alternatives →
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2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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