Is ClickHouse as Powerful as We Thought?
The open-source analytical database ClickHouse (CH) is hot recently and is said to be exceptionally fast for performing OLAP analyses. Many users suffering from performance problems are eager to have a try. Does the DBMS really meet our expectations? The following performance test will tell us. Our subjects for comparisons are CH, Oracle (Ora in the following sections), and the open-source esProc SPL. The benchmark is the internationally acknowledged TPC-H. The test is based on 8 tables, tasked with achieving computations defined by 22 SQL statements (Q1-Q22), and compares times spent in finishing the computations with CH, Ora, and SPL
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