Why We Maintain a Clickhouse Fork at Tinybird (and How It's Different)
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Tinybird explains why they maintain a ClickHouse fork and its differences.
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kannaary
4 months ago
1 replySuper interesting blogpost, how much money are you saving per month with the new format?
javisantanaAuthor
4 months ago
Not going to disclose that but you can make a guess on % if you analyze the S3 write/read ops a ClickHouse server does with regular or compact parts in a simple table (with a few columns) writing once per second
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