I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years(tinybird.co)
241 points by adastral 50 days ago | 86 comments
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HN Discussion:
  • ↑DBA-like roles remain valuable for managing complex database clusters and query patterns
  • ↑Ingestion challenges with ClickHouse are widely relatable and confirmed by experience
  • ↓Skeptical of ClickHouse's development practices due to rapid AI-generated commits and issues
  • •Questioning whether petabyte-scale analytics workloads are actually necessary in practice
  • ~Suggests architectural alternatives like workload separation and DuckDB for complexity management