ClickHouse

A fast open-source column-oriented database management system.

About

Founded

2009

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Industry

Data, Dev Tools

Company Description

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented OLAP database management system that allows users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time. Its technology works 100-1000x faster than traditional database management systems, and processes hundreds of millions to over a billion rows and tens of gigabytes of data per server per second. With a widespread user base around the globe, the technology has received praise for its reliability, ease of use, and fault tolerance.

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Funding

Total Raised

$300 million

Valuation

$2 billion

Significant Investors

Benchmark, Altimeter Capital, Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, FirstMark, Thrive Capital

Company Traction

  • As of July 2023, ClickHouse has 100,000+ developers on its platform.
  • As of July 2023, ClickHouse’s GitHub has 29.8K stars, 5.9K forks, and 1,276 contributors, up from 20K stars and 800 contributors in October 2021.
  • As of July 2023, ClickHouse has 4,025 developers in its Slack community.
  • As of July 2023, developers have made 32,000+ pull requests, up from 20,000 in October 2021.
  • ClickHouse customers include Cloudflare, eBay, Uber, Comcast, and Cisco.

Leadership Team

  • Aaron Katz: Co-Founder & CEO of ClickHouse. Former CRO at Elastic.
  • Yury Izrailevsky: Co-Founder & President of ClickHouse. Former VP of Engineering at Google.
  • Dorota Szeremeta: VP of Operations at ClickHouse. Former VP of Employee Success Strategy & Operations at Salesforce.
  • Mike Hayes: VP of Sales at ClickHouse. Former AVP of Sales, West at Elastic.