ClickHouse - Lightning Fast Analytics for Everyone

Summary: ClickHouse is an open-source, native OLAP system for petabyte-scale data, combining LSM-inspired storage with continuous background aggregation and archiving. Vectorized/compiled execution, aggressive pruning, and extensible integrations deliver high-ingest, low-latency analytics under concurrency. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hea9878d9447c8915
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 7.8621757e-05
Overall Rank: 2,910 | 80.50%
DOI: 10.14778/3685800.3685802
PDF: Download (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Robert Schulze (ClickHouse Inc.)
2. Tom Schreiber (ClickHouse Inc.)
3. Ilya Yatsishin (ClickHouse Inc.)
4. Ryadh Dahimene (ClickHouse Inc.)
5. Alexey Milovidov (ClickHouse Inc.)

BibTeX Citation

@article{schulze_vldb24,
        title = {{ClickHouse - Lightning Fast Analytics for Everyone}},
        author = {Schulze, Robert and Schreiber, Tom and Yatsishin, Ilya and Dahimene, Ryadh and Milovidov, Alexey},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3731--3744},
        doi = {10.14778/3685800.3685802},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3685800.3685802},
        year = {2024}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 22 of 22 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,765	Mitigating the Impedance Mismatch between Prediction Query Execution and Database Engine	2025	SIGMOD	5.6695399e-05
8,235	Rethinking Analytical Processing in the GPU Era	2026	CIDR	5.3569644e-05
9,760	Database as Runtime: Compiling LLMs to SQL for In-database Model Serving	2025	SIGMOD	5.115551e-05
10,039	Selective Late Materialization in Modern Analytical Databases	2025	VLDB	5.0786422e-05
10,119	LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics	2025	VLDB	5.0638787e-05
10,287	AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets	2025	VLDB	5.0328754e-05
10,339	Data Chunk Compaction in Vectorized Execution	2025	SIGMOD	5.0210286e-05
10,348	AnalyticDB-PG: A Cloud-native High-performance Data Warehouse in Alibaba Cloud	2025	VLDB	5.0195882e-05
10,391	DQSim: Does the Task Assignment Slow Down Your Distributed Database System?	2027	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
10,593	VecBench: A Controllable Benchmark for Filtered Vector Search: [Experiments & Analysis]	2026	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
10,631	Counting Is All You Need for Instant Tuple Discovery: Enabling Real-Time HTAP in Standalone DBMSs	2026	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
10,655	NeurStore: Efficient In-database Deep Learning Model Management System	2026	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
10,674	TranSQL+: Serving Large Language Models with SQL on Low-Resource Hardware	2026	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
10,781	TurboLynx: Schemaless Graph Engine Strikes Back for General-Purpose Analytics	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
10,784	Robust Predicate Transfer with Dynamic Execution	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
10,872	PystachIO: Efficient Distributed GPU Query Processing with PyTorch over Fast Networks & Fast Storage	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
10,911	CrocSort: Resource-Efficient, Skew-Resilient Parallel External Merge Sort	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
10,984	FastCompose: Eliminating Compilation Cold Starts in Query Execution with Composition	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
10,985	Reaching the Pinnacle of TPC-DS: Co-design of Architecture, Executor, and Storage in TDSQL	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
11,002	IMLane: Composable Framework for Efficient AI Function Execution in Database Engine	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
11,005	OmniTable: A Unified Wide-Table System for Petabyte-Scale LLM Data Curation and Exploration	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
11,198	OpenMLDB: A Real-Time Relational Data Feature Computation System for Online ML	2025	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 31 of 31 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00068985264
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00063972112
21	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00056737487
48	Weaving Relations for Cache Performance	2001	VLDB	0.00043770511
52	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00041439488
61	Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems	2006	SIGMOD	0.00039323387
71	DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database	2019	SIGMOD	0.00037688945
147	Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database	2015	VLDB	0.00028941363
177	The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later	2012	VLDB	0.00026571747
209	Cache Conscious Indexing for Decision-Support in Main Memory	1999	VLDB	0.00024915373
215	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00024554257
216	Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing	1998	VLDB	0.00024446892
228	Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023872855
280	FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs	2010	SIGMOD	0.00022267903
289	Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions	2002	SIGMOD	0.00021955394
360	Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs	2011	SIGMOD	0.00019959166
375	Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance	2020	CIDR	0.00019660459
606	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compiled and Vectorized Queries But Were Afraid to Ask	2018	VLDB	0.00015609823
627	Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases	2015	SIGMOD	0.00015430074
651	Amazon Redshift Re-invented	2022	SIGMOD	0.00015126716
894	Data Blocks: Hybrid OLTP and OLAP on Compressed Storage using both Vectorization and Compilation	2016	SIGMOD	0.00013179915
980	Sybase IQ Multiplex – Designed For Analytics	2004	VLDB	0.0001268915
1,134	Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale	2020	VLDB	0.00011863043
1,240	Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011373933
1,415	Velox: Meta's Unified Execution Engine	2022	VLDB	0.00010707308
1,488	Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems	2022	SIGMOD	0.00010487094
1,783	Greenplum: A Hybrid Database for Transactional and Analytical Workloads	2021	SIGMOD	9.6536753e-05
1,958	Quantifying TPC-H Choke Points and Their Optimizations	2020	VLDB	9.2894133e-05
4,187	Pinot: Realtime OLAP for 530 Million Users	2018	SIGMOD	6.7378942e-05
4,346	Analyzing and Comparing Lakehouse Storage Systems	2023	CIDR	6.6386388e-05
4,373	A Deep Dive into Common Open Formats for Analytical DBMSs	2023	VLDB	6.6191786e-05

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	6,942	Petabyte-Scale Row-Level Operations in Data Lakehouses	2024	VLDB
2	10,201	Rapid Adoption of Cloud Data Warehouse Technology Using Datometry Hyper-Q	2018	SIGMOD
3	3,850	High-Dimensional OLAP: A Minimal Cubing Approach	2004	VLDB
4	6,295	Mainlining Databases: Supporting Fast Transactional Workloads on Universal Columnar Data File Formats	2021	VLDB
5	3,457	Apache Hive: From MapReduce to Enterprise-grade Big Data Warehousing	2019	SIGMOD
6	2,878	Choosing A Cloud DBMS: Architectures and Tradeoffs	2019	VLDB
7	8,250	Operational Analytics Data Management Systems	2016	VLDB
8	8,068	Cloud Databases: New Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities	2022	VLDB
9	2,474	AnalyticDB: Real-time OLAP Database System at Alibaba Cloud	2019	VLDB
10	5,009	Fast In-Memory SQL Analytics on Typed Graphs	2017	VLDB