I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years(tinybird.co)
237 points by adastral 4 days ago | 85 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