About · ClickHouse
ClickHouse.
An open-source columnar database for real-time analytics on very large datasets.
Primary use cases
- · Analytics
- · Time-series
- · Log storage
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§ Head-to-Head
ClickHouse vs CockroachDB.
An open-source columnar database for real-time analytics on very large datasets. · A distributed, strongly-consistent SQL database with Postgres-wire compatibility, designed to survive failures.
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§ Quick Verdict
Pick ClickHouse if you need analytics, time-series or log storage.
Pick CockroachDB if you need online transaction processing (oltp), geo-distributed or multi-tenant saas.
§ At a Glance
- Analytical databases
- Category
- Relational
- 2016
- First released
- 2015
- Apache 2
- License
- Source-available (CRL)
- C++
- Written in
- Go
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes
- 47,462
- GitHub stars
- 32,163
- yesterday
- Last push
- yesterday
- v26.1.12.23-stable
- Latest release
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§ Use Case Coverage
● fits · ○ not a primary fit
Where each one fits.
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Analytics
Aggregations and scans over large datasets.
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Geo-distributed
Active-active across multiple regions, strong consistency.
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Log storage
High-throughput append-mostly event ingestion.
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Multi-tenant SaaS
Isolated tenants on shared infrastructure.
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Online transaction processing (OLTP)
Application traffic — reads and writes from a web app.
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Time-series
Metrics, IoT, financial ticks, monitoring data.
ClickHouse CockroachDB
Coverage reflects each tool's primary, well-supported use cases — not every workload it can technically handle. Tools listed as missing a case can often serve it with extra work, but a tool designed for it will be a better default.
About · CockroachDB
CockroachDB.
A distributed, strongly-consistent SQL database with Postgres-wire compatibility, designed to survive failures.
Primary use cases
- · Online transaction processing (OLTP)
- · Geo-distributed
- · Multi-tenant SaaS
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