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ClickBench
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Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance [pdf]
Benchmarks: https://benchmark.clickhouse.com
So definitely compared against PostgreSQL, MariaDB it is significantly faster.
On par with lower-end Snowflake.
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Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB
TimescaleDB primarily serves operational use cases: Developers building products on top of live data, where you are regularly streaming in fresh data, and you often know what many queries look like a priori, because those are powering your live APIs, dashboards, and product experience.
That's different from a data warehouse or many traditional "OLAP" use cases, where you might dump a big dataset statically, and then people will occasionally do ad-hoc queries against it. This is the big weather dataset file sitting on your desktop that you occasionally query while on holidays.
So it's less about "can you store weather data", but what does that use case look like? How are the queries shaped? Are you saving a single dataset for ad-hoc queries across the entire dataset, or continuously streaming in new data, and aging out or de-prioritizing old data?
In most of the products we serve, customers are often interested in recent data in a very granular format ("shallow and wide"), or longer historical queries along a well defined axis ("deep and narrow").
For example, this is where the benefits of TimescaleDB's segmented columnar compression emerges. It optimizes for those queries which are very common in your application, e.g., an IoT application that groups by or selected by deviceID, crypto/fintech analysis based on the ticker symbol, product analytics based on tenantID, etc.
If you look at Clickbench, what most of the queries say are: Scan ALL the data in your database, and GROUP BY one of the 100 columns in the web analytics logs.
- https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/blob/main/clickhous...
There are almost no time-predicates in the benchmark that Clickhouse created, but perhaps that is not surprising given it was designed for ad-hoc weblog analytics at Yandex.
So yes, Timescale serves many products today that use weather data, but has made different choices than Clickhouse (or things like DuckDB, pg_analytics, etc) to serve those more operational use cases.
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Variant in Apache Doris 2.1.0: a new data type 8 times faster than JSON for semi-structured data analysis
We tested with 43 Clickbench SQL queries. Queries on the Variant columns are about 10% slower than those on pre-defined static columns, and 8 times faster than those on JSON columns. (For I/O reasons, most cold runs on JSONB data failed with OOM.)
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Fair Benchmarking Considered Difficult (2018) [pdf]
I have a project dedicated to this topic: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench
It is important to explain the limitations of a benchmark, provide a methodology, and make it reproducible. It also has to be simple enough, otherwise it will not be realistic to include a large number of participants.
I'm also collecting all database benchmarks I could find: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/22398
- ClickBench – A Benchmark for Analytical DBMS
- FLaNK Stack 05 Feb 2024
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Why Postgres RDS didn't work for us
Indeed, ClickHouse results were run on an older instance type of the same family and size (c5.4xlarge for ClickHouse and c6a.4xlarge for Timescale), so if anything ClickHouse results are at a slight disadvantage.
This is an open source benchmark - we'd love contributions from Timescale enthusiasts if we missed something: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/
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Show HN: Stanchion – Column-oriented tables in SQLite
Interesting project! Thank you for open sourcing and sharing. Agree that local and embedded analytics are an increasing trend, I see it too.
A couple of questions:
* I’m curious what the difficulties were in the implementation. I suspect it is quite a challenge to implement this support in the current SQLite architecture, and would curious to know which parts were tricky and any design trade-off you were faced with.
* Aside from ease-of-use (install extension, no need for a separate analytical database system), I wonder if there are additional benefits users can anticipate resulting from a single system architecture vs running an embedded OLAP store like DuckDB or clickhouse-local / chdb side-by-side with SQLite? Do you anticipate performance or resource efficiency gains, for instance?
* I am also curious, what the main difficulty with bringing in a separate analytical database is, assuming it natively integrates with SQLite. I may be biased, but I doubt anything can approach the performance of native column-oriented systems, so I'm curious what the tipping point might be for using this extension vs using an embedded OLAP store in practice.
Btw, would love for you or someone in the community to benchmark Stanchion in ClickBench and submit results! (https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/)
Disclaimer: I work on ClickHouse.
- ClickBench: A Benchmark for Analytical Databases
- DuckDB performance improvements with the latest release
citus
- SPQR 1.3.0: a production-ready system for horizontal scaling of PostgreSQL
- Citus: PostgreSQL extension that transforms Postgres into a distributed database
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Figma's Databases team lived to tell the scale
I see they don't mention Citus (https://github.com/citusdata/citus), which is already a fairly mature native Postgres extension. From the details given in the article, in sounds like they just reimplemented it.
I wonder if they were unaware of it or disregarded it for a reason —I currently am in a similar situation as the one described in the blog, trying to shard a massive Postgres DB.
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PostgreSQL Is Enough
It is possible, if you pay for it. You can do Multi-AZ Clustered Instances in RDS, where you get the benefits of Multi-AZ failover with traffic sharing.
If you can run your own infra – at least on an EC2 level – you can do things like Citus [0] for Postgres, which is about as close to "just add database nodes" as you'll get.
[0]: https://www.citusdata.com/
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Vitess 18
So while searching for something like this for postgres I came across citus. Any one know how that stacks up?
https://github.com/citusdata/citus
- In-Depth Guide: Citus Technical Readme
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Revolutionizing Database Scaling with CitusDB
References: CitusDB
- Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
- Show HN: Hydra 1.0 – open-source column-oriented Postgres
- Schema-based sharding comes to PostgreSQL with Citus
What are some alternatives?
starrocks - StarRocks, a Linux Foundation project, is a next-generation sub-second MPP OLAP database for full analytics scenarios, including multi-dimensional analytics, real-time analytics, and ad-hoc queries. InfoWorld’s 2023 BOSSIE Award for best open source software.
Greenplum - Greenplum Database - Massively Parallel PostgreSQL for Analytics. An open-source massively parallel data platform for analytics, machine learning and AI.
duckdb - DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP Database Management System
yugabyte-db - YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.
ClickHouse - ClickHouse® is a free analytics DBMS for big data
vitess - Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
hosts - 🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
TimescaleDB - An open-source time-series SQL database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. Packaged as a PostgreSQL extension.
TablePlus - TablePlus macOS issue tracker
dbt-core - dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.
clickhouse-bulk - Collects many small inserts to ClickHouse and send in big inserts
stolon - PostgreSQL cloud native High Availability and more.