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: 7.7631056e-05
Overall Rank: 3,003 | 79.82%
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)

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6,747	Mitigating the Impedance Mismatch between Prediction Query Execution and Database Engine	2025	SIGMOD	5.6883491e-05
9,055	Rethinking Analytical Processing in the GPU Era	2026	CIDR	5.2283545e-05
9,729	Database as Runtime: Compiling LLMs to SQL for In-database Model Serving	2025	SIGMOD	5.1325223e-05
10,004	Selective Late Materialization in Modern Analytical Databases	2025	VLDB	5.0954911e-05
10,085	LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics	2025	VLDB	5.0806786e-05
10,256	AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets	2025	VLDB	5.0495724e-05
10,311	Data Chunk Compaction in Vectorized Execution	2025	SIGMOD	5.0376863e-05
10,321	AnalyticDB-PG: A Cloud-native High-performance Data Warehouse in Alibaba Cloud	2025	VLDB	5.0362412e-05
10,527	VecBench: A Controllable Benchmark for Filtered Vector Search: [Experiments & Analysis]	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
10,567	Counting Is All You Need for Instant Tuple Discovery: Enabling Real-Time HTAP in Standalone DBMSs	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
10,593	NeurStore: Efficient In-database Deep Learning Model Management System	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
10,613	TranSQL+: Serving Large Language Models with SQL on Low-Resource Hardware	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
10,720	TurboLynx: Schemaless Graph Engine Strikes Back for General-Purpose Analytics	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
10,723	Robust Predicate Transfer with Dynamic Execution	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
10,811	PystachIO: Efficient Distributed GPU Query Processing with PyTorch over Fast Networks & Fast Storage	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
10,850	CrocSort: Resource-Efficient, Skew-Resilient Parallel External Merge Sort	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
10,923	FastCompose: Eliminating Compilation Cold Starts in Query Execution with Composition	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
10,924	Reaching the Pinnacle of TPC-DS: Co-design of Architecture, Executor, and Storage in TDSQL	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
10,941	IMLane: Composable Framework for Efficient AI Function Execution in Database Engine	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
10,944	OmniTable: A Unified Wide-Table System for Petabyte-Scale LLM Data Curation and Exploration	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,139	OpenMLDB: A Real-Time Relational Data Feature Computation System for Online ML	2025	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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	0.0006897844
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00064013679
21	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00056835296
48	Weaving Relations for Cache Performance	2001	VLDB	0.00043795812
52	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00041210636
61	Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems	2006	SIGMOD	0.00039236924
71	DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database	2019	SIGMOD	0.00037724477
148	Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database	2015	VLDB	0.00029001141
178	The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later	2012	VLDB	0.00026620521
206	Cache Conscious Indexing for Decision-Support in Main Memory	1999	VLDB	0.00024981343
215	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00024589307
216	Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing	1998	VLDB	0.00024485637
228	Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023915456
277	FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs	2010	SIGMOD	0.00022320139
287	Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions	2002	SIGMOD	0.00022001327
362	Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs	2011	SIGMOD	0.00019999596
373	Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance	2020	CIDR	0.00019705706
605	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compiled and Vectorized Queries But Were Afraid to Ask	2018	VLDB	0.00015640305
627	Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases	2015	SIGMOD	0.00015454197
681	Amazon Redshift Re-invented	2022	SIGMOD	0.0001482366
907	Data Blocks: Hybrid OLTP and OLAP on Compressed Storage using both Vectorization and Compilation	2016	SIGMOD	0.00013157412
980	Sybase IQ Multiplex – Designed For Analytics	2004	VLDB	0.00012717512
1,135	Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale	2020	VLDB	0.00011886308
1,238	Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011397949
1,424	Velox: Meta's Unified Execution Engine	2022	VLDB	0.00010714183
1,487	Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems	2022	SIGMOD	0.00010516813
1,791	Greenplum: A Hybrid Database for Transactional and Analytical Workloads	2021	SIGMOD	9.6213736e-05
1,949	Quantifying TPC-H Choke Points and Their Optimizations	2020	VLDB	9.3172855e-05
4,172	Pinot: Realtime OLAP for 530 Million Users	2018	SIGMOD	6.7567851e-05
4,332	Analyzing and Comparing Lakehouse Storage Systems	2023	CIDR	6.6556222e-05
4,638	A Deep Dive into Common Open Formats for Analytical DBMSs	2023	VLDB	6.4901967e-05

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