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Why do people on HN love Clickhouse so much? As far as I can tell, it’s an ordinary column store, with a bunch of limitations around distributed joins and a heuristic-based query planner. There are several good analytical databases that will give you the same scan performance and a much better query planner and executor.

This is not a rhetorical question, I would really like to know why it gets so much attention here.


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