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ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented database management system designed for real-time analytical query processing at scale.

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This page reflects public online discussion, collected and scored by automated systems and summarized using AI. It is not a statement of fact, not an audit, and not our own opinion of the product. Automated analysis can be incomplete or wrong, and scores carry the limitations described in our methodology. Companies can respond with their own perspective. See how this is calculated.

Updated June 29, 2026

Overall Pulse Score

33
Pulse Score

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A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 770 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 12 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.

Weekly Sentiment Trend

Pulse Score by week over the selected period. Each point is one complete week of mentions.

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This week in public discussion

Over the recent period, community discussion around ClickHouse was dominated by bug reports and reliability concerns, which far outnumbered positive mentions across the roughly 700 total comments tracked. Several complaints focused on schema compatibility breakage with OpenTelemetry integrations and credential exposure issues. On the positive side, commenters praised ecosystem tooling built on top of ClickHouse, including type-safe query layers and open-sourced projects. The overall sentiment pulse remained flat compared to the prior period, with reliability and performance complaints drawing the most attention.

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AI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.

Sentiment mix by week

How the tone of public discussion splits each week.

Most-discussed praise

Strong features65
Performance36
Good integrations35
Compared to rivals27
Feature requests18

Most-discussed complaints

Bugs482
Reliability314
Performance102
Missing features94
Feels slow34

Themes across the selected period, with mention counts.

How ClickHouse compares

Pulse Score over the selected period versus the top tracked competitors in Software.

Where the mentions come from

Share of the 770 relevant public mentions in the selected period, by source.

GitHub92% (708)
Hacker News8% (62)

Sample public mentions

Showing 5 of 770 analyzed public mentions in this period, with links to the original source. We do not reproduce full threads.

Credentials can be viewed by anyone with macro. **Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** I poked around and found out that credentials can be easily viewed with macro This method appeared in commit https://github.com/ClickHouse/dbt-clickhouse/commit/24af...

GitHubJun 22, 2026

Hi HN! This is Arseniy from Superlog (YC P26). Today we announce that we’re releasing our code under the Apache 2.0 license.You might have seen our launch (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195021) earlier. For those that haven’t, we’re building a simpler, cleaner version of...

Hacker NewsJun 8, 2026

Hi HN,I’m Dan Lussier & I built a SIEM named nano. The platform took around 6 months to be fully featured (and tested, and security scanned.. many times over). I’ve been working in information security for over 20 years, and even if it sounds redundant, I always found major SIEM ...

Hacker NewsJun 3, 2026

Built-in OTel logs/traces queries break against schema produced by opentelemetry-collector-contrib clickhouseexporter ≥ v0.151.0. **What happened**: The built-in OTel queries shipped by grafana-clickhouse-datasource (tested on v1.9.2, otelVersion: latest) fail against tables crea...

GitHubJun 5, 2026

Scrub leaked homelab hosts/tailnet from git history (dashboard-tsr). ## Context A security/open-source review of apps/dashboard-tsr found real private homelab info committed to this **public** repo in wrangler.toml, scripts/patch-wrangler-env.ts, and an agent fallback: - Tailscal...

GitHubJun 10, 2026

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Deeper analysis

  • Bug and reliability complaints dominated the conversation by a wide margin, accounting for the bulk of all mentions across the four-week window.
  • Sentiment dropped sharply in early June as mention volume surged, then partially recovered but did not return to its prior level by the end of the period.
  • Performance divided opinion, appearing as both a notable praise theme and a significant complaint theme depending on the context commenters described.
  • A smaller but active thread of builder-focused discussion around integrations and feature gaps ran alongside the critical commentary, reflecting a split in how engaged users framed their relationship with the product.
Praise themeMentions
Strong features65
Performance36
Good integrations35
Compared to rivals27
Feature requests18
Complaint themeMentions
Bugs482
Reliability314
Performance102
Missing features94
Feels slow34

Discussion around ClickHouse over the past four weeks was heavily weighted toward frustration, with bugs and reliability concerns accounting for a disproportionate share of the total conversation. Complaints about bugs alone drew 441 mentions against a backdrop of 701 total, suggesting that a significant portion of public commentary was organized around specific defects rather than general sentiment. Reliability surfaced close behind, and performance appeared on both sides of the ledger, meaning that while some commenters praised speed, a comparable thread of discussion pointed to slowness or degradation under certain conditions. The overall tone felt reactive rather than exploratory.

The score trajectory tells a story of brief recovery followed by a sharper downturn. Sentiment held in a relatively narrow band through early May, then climbed modestly in the week ending May 25 before dropping notably in the first two weeks of June, which also happened to be when mention volume surged from single digits into the hundreds. That surge coincided with the low point of the tracked window, suggesting that a concentrated wave of negative discussion drove both the volume spike and the score decline. A partial rebound in mid-June cooled again by the final week, leaving sentiment essentially flat versus the period start.

Praise themes did appear but remained marginal in volume relative to complaints. Feature praise and integration satisfaction drew some positive commentary, and a handful of mentions framed ClickHouse favorably against competitors. Sample mentions pointed to developers building integrations and semantic layers on top of ClickHouse, indicating an engaged builder community that coexisted with the louder critical thread.

Opinion was most divided around performance, which appeared as both a praise theme and a complaint theme, and around integrations, where positive mentions of compatibility sat alongside reports of schema-level breakage with third-party exporters. Feature requests and missing functionality generated their own undercurrent, with several mentions framing gaps in alerting, keyboard accessibility, and mobile experience as problems worth solving rather than blockers, indicating a spectrum of tolerance within the user base.

AI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.

Member perspectives

Individual opinions from Pro members, posted over time. These are personal member views, not aggregated sentiment data.

Data summary

Total mentions analyzed (all time)
6,777
Mentions in selected period
770
Weeks in range
12
vs Software average (44)
Below by 11
Pricing
Free / Cloud plans available
Sources
GitHub (708), Hacker News (62)

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