ClickHouse

Open-source column-oriented OLAP database for real-time analytics over large volumes of events, logs and metrics.

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Where it fits

How ClickHouse itself is built

3 tools, from its own code, website and Product Hunt page.

Who uses it

40 makers' products, each linked to the source that shows it, and 58 open-source projects that declare it in their code.

The maker says so 26Subprocessor list 16Declared in code 62How evidence is collected →
LangfuseOpen-source LLM engineering platform for tracing, evaluation, prompt management and expe…

“Without Clickhouse, running Langfuse at this scale, particularly the dashboards, would be impossible. We appreciate that it is open source and can be self-hosted by many Langfuse users and customers.”

DatabaseMaker says so +2 · source ↗
HeliconeLLM observability platform and gateway that logs, monitors and helps debug requests acro…

“With Clickhouse, we were able to easily handle and analyze massive amounts of data, and it’s open-source! Their scalability is truly a game-changer for us.”

DatabaseMaker says so +1 · source ↗
BasedashBusiness intelligence tool that connects to a company's data and builds charts and dashb…

“ClickHouse backs Basedash Warehouse, every team's centralized warehouse in Basedash. It's incredibly fast for complex queries and scales to any size we need.”

DatabaseMaker says so · source ↗
PrefactorCatch your agents' mistakes before they reach customers

“Spans are append-only and every screen in the product is an aggregate over millions of them, which is a columnar problem, so that's where they live.”

DatabaseMaker says so · source ↗
IncertoThe AI Copilot for Databases

“ClickHouse OSS was one of the very initial database we supported. Amazing OSS drivers and support.”

DatabaseMaker says so · source ↗
ASOASO.dev All in-one solution for iOS developers & marketing

“ClickHouse saves us tons of gigabytes on disk space and delivers incredible performance. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to manage such a large volume of data efficiently. However, we’re still explore everything ClickHouse has to offer.”

DatabaseMaker says so · source ↗
Juspay HyperswitchOpen-source payments orchestration layer that connects one API and checkout to many paym…

“Monitoring for its end-to-end payment solutions and real-time merchant dashboards.”

DatabaseMaker says so · source ↗
SitelineGrowth analytics for the agentic web

“We built on ClickHouse to process large volumes of AI bot and server-log data in real time. Agent analytics requires speed and scale - and ClickHouse delivers both.”

DatabaseMaker says so · source ↗
SwetrixCookieless and open source Google Analytics alternative

“The database that powers our analytics :) Very configurable, fast and reliable!”

DatabaseMaker says so · source ↗
OpenLITContinuous feedback for testing, tracing & fixing AI agents

“Observability at scale = metrics + logs + traces → all powered by ClickHouse. 🚀”

DatabaseMaker says so · source ↗
ShapedThe real-time retrieval engine for search, feeds, and agents

“ClickHouse is one of our favourite data products because it's lightning fast and cost effective.”

DatabaseMaker says so · source ↗

Open source: a project that declares ClickHouse as a dependency in its public code — verifiable, but not necessarily a live product.

What makers say

19 makers on why they use ClickHouse, in their own words on Product Hunt.

ClickHouse saves us tons of gigabytes on disk space and delivers incredible performance. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to manage such a large volume of data efficiently. However, we’re still explore everything ClickHouse has to offer.
ASOSep 2026 ↗
We built on ClickHouse to process large volumes of AI bot and server-log data in real time. Agent analytics requires speed and scale - and ClickHouse delivers both.
SitelineSep 2026 ↗
ClickHouse backs Basedash Warehouse, every team's centralized warehouse in Basedash. It's incredibly fast for complex queries and scales to any size we need.
BasedashSep 2026 ↗
Spans are append-only and every screen in the product is an aggregate over millions of them, which is a columnar problem, so that's where they live.
PrefactorSep 2026 ↗
ClickHouse OSS was one of the very initial database we supported. Amazing OSS drivers and support.
IncertoSep 2026 ↗

Loved and watch-outs

Themes that recur in makers' words and Hacker News comments, each linked to what it summarises, with how Product Hunt tags its reviews.

On Product Hunt 5.0★ · 28 reviews
fast performance 3real-time analytics 3
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Reliability and open issues

Incidents on its status page17 in the last 90 days, 2 major · 25+ in the last year
  • minor Streaming ClickPipes degradation in AWS eu-central-1 region Sep 2026
  • minor Some ClickPipes CDC pipes paused and can't be resumed Sep 2026
  • minor We are investigating an issue affecting Azure eastus2 region Sep 2026
From its own status page, 2026-10-02. Vendors decide what they post; one page can cover several products.
Most wanted on GitHubOpen on 2026-10-04 in ClickHouse/ClickHouse, with activity in the last year — issues and feature requests by 👍.

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Questions makers ask about ClickHouse

Is ClickHouse free?

Yes — there is a free tier a small product can run on; paid use starts at $53/mo (Basic). source ↗

Is ClickHouse open source or self-hostable?

Open source, and you can self-host it. source ↗

Can AI coding agents work with ClickHouse?

It serves an llms.txt docs index; it has an official MCP server (io.github.ClickHouse/mcp-clickhouse); Lovable set it up natively.

Who uses ClickHouse?

40 makers' products we track, each with a source, and 58 open-source projects declare it in their code. source ↗