Clickhouse: Faster Queries, Faster Answers (with Alasdair Brown)

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In modern systems, the amount of data keeps getting larger, and the time available keeps getting shorter. So it's almost inevitable that we're augmenting our general-purpose databases with dedicated analytics databases.

This week we dive into the world of OLAP with a thorough look at Clickhouse, a high-performance, columnar database designed to "query billions of rows in microseconds."
Alasdair Brown joins us to discuss what Clickhouse is, how it performs queries so quickly, and where it fits into a wider system. We talk about its origins as a Google Analytics-like, and how it's grown into one of the most popular OLAP databases around.

There's a lot of ground to cover, and a lot of questions to ask, all in the service of faster answers...

Alasdair's Blog: alasdairb.com
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Alasdair on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alasdair-brown
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Clickhouse: https://clickhouse.com/
Tinybird: https://www.tinybird.co/
Birdhouse in your Soul: https://youtu.be/vn_or9gEB6g

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