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Products that do what Firebolt Core – #1 in ClickBench – Free Scale-Out Analytical SQL Engine does
Hi HN, there’s a distinct lack of modern self-hosted scale-out query engines. A lot of the innovation in the last 10 years has been in SaaS-only systems. That’s also been true for Firebolt until now. We’re now taking the radical step of offering our query engine as a Docker image that’s free for commercial use without any real restrictions on what you can use it for (basically everything except competing with our SaaS offering). There are helm charts and docker compose files in the repo as well to help you get started. The focus of Firebolt is on low-latency, high-concurrency analytics like…
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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
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ohai! I've released Lightwhale 3, which is possibly the easiest way to self-host Docker containers. It's a free, immutable Linux system purpose-built to live-boot straight into a working Docker Engine, thereby shortcutting the need for installation, configuration, and maintenance. Its simple design makes it easy to learn, and its low memory footprint should make it especially attractive during these times of RAMageddon. If this has piqued your interest, do check it out, along with its easy-to-follow Getting Started guide. In any event, have a nice day! =)
Apr 2026 · lightwhale.asklandd.dk
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We just launched Outerbase Studio, the open-source version of our core database offering. It works in your browser or as a desktop app and supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. What it does: • Connects to MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases. • Spin up local databases directly through the UI, even if you don’t have one running. • Manage and query your data in a lightweight, intuitive interface. • Completely open source. Why we built it: We wanted to share the core Outerbase experience with the developer community as a free, open-source tool. It’s simple, fast, and removes the barriers…
2024 · github.com
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Hello HN! I've found my SQL knowledge to be lacking, so I made a project that uses SQLite as a backend. As it is intended for self-hosting I aim to make it easy to set up and maintain. Getting it up & running takes no more than a few commands (bar setting up a proxy such as nginx, which is out of scope). I've set up a "demo" site at https://forum.agreper.com/ if you want to try out the UI.
2022 · github.com
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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
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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
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2024 · github.com
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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
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Hi HN, I'm Mohammed, a technical founder who loves shipping and giving back to the community. I'm open-sourcing the full-stack engine that powers my B2B product, apflow.co. What it is: A production B2B starter with a Go backend and Next.js frontend. Both are fully Dockerized with separate containers. No Vercel. No Supabase. Deploy the whole thing on a $6 VPS, or split frontend and backend across different providers. You own the infrastructure. The problem I was solving: Every SaaS starter I evaluated had the same issue: they locked me into someone else's platform. Vercel for hosting.…
Dec 2025 · github.com
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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…
17d ago · wavehouse.dev
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We’ve built SQLRooms, an open-source framework for creating single-node data analytics apps powered by DuckDB. It lets you build fully client-side, data-centric apps using React and DuckDB running in the browser (via WebAssembly) or in Electron. No server or backend is required — apps can work offline, preserve data privacy, and run queries on large datasets with sub-second performance. Features: - Query large datasets in browser with DuckDB (WASM) - Modular design for building composable data UIs (query editors, dashboards, notebooks, etc.) - Data privacy-preserving AI assistant that can…
2025 · sqlrooms.org
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Firecrawl Simple is a stripped down and stable version of firecrawl optimized for self-hosting and ease of contribution. The upstream firecrawl repo contains the following blurb: >This repository is in development, and we're still integrating custom modules into the mono repo. It's not fully ready for self-hosted deployment yet, but you can run it locally. Firecrawl's API surface and general functionality were ideal for our Trieve sitesearch product, but we needed a version ready for self-hosting that was easy to contribute to and scale on Kubernetes. Therefore, we decided to fork and begin…
2024 · github.com
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I'd like to share a project I've been working on for the past few months. It's a distributed workflow engine written entirely in Go. Some highlights: * Tasks are executed in a Docker container * Can run stand-alone or distributed * Highly extensible * Able to enforce limits (CPU/RAM) per task * Web UI Would love the get your feedback on it, and find out if this could be useful.
2023 · github.com
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At Arcesium, we needed a way to run SQL-driven CRUD operations, manage slowly-changing dimensions, and handle schema evolution on our cloud data lakes—without the overhead of spinning up distributed clusters or relying on vendor-managed query services. That’s why we built SwiftLake, a lightweight open-source library that brings Apache Iceberg and DuckDB together: - Lightweight & cluster-free: Runs as a single Java service with embedded DuckDB—no distributed infra required. - Full CRUD and SCD1/SCD2 support: Reads, inserts/appends, updates, deletes, and merges with ACID guarantees.…
Sep 2025 · github.com
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Preface: we love Hacker News. It's been one of the constant good things in all of our lives, and is by far our favorite place to talk with people about what we're doing. I figured it was worth doing a special post for something we've been cooking up, rather than just linking to what everyone else gets. So here it is. We just turned on a product we're calling "Elastic Deployments". These are MongoDB clusters that scale vertically with no intervention. As a database grows, it has access to more RAM, IOPs and CPU. More here:…
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Turn any SQL code block on your website into a runnable query editor with just a tag. Powered by DuckDB WASM running entirely in the browser – no backend needed. Perfect for documentation sites, tutorials, and blog posts. Features: • Full SQL analytics engine (DuckDB) running client-side • Syntax highlighting with live editing • One-click query execution (or Ctrl+Enter) • Works with any static site – just add the CDN script • Only 23KB minified, loads DuckDB on-demand • Dark/light theme support Try it: https://widget.pondpilot.io GitHub:…
2025 · github.com
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May 2026 · github.com
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Stratum▲7A native macOS database GUI — no Electron, no subscription
Jul 2026 · stratum.mwn-digital.uk
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I've built a type-safe semantic layer in code, for ClickHouse. If you're building analytics off ClickHouse in TypeScript, I would love your feedback. With hypequery there is no platform to adopt, no YAML sprawl. It runs where your app runs. Key features: - Define metrics once, reuse them everywhere: Declare dimensions and measures in one place and then pull from the same source of truth. - Compiles to ClickHouse SQL: No service, no proxy, no extra runtime to deploy. It's a library that generates SQL and runs where your app runs. - Multi-tenancy & Authentication ready: Cross-tenant queries…
Jun 2026 · github.com
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