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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node).

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

However, there are a number of other important applications: Manufacturer-sponsored discounts can fall into this category because a retailer is not concerned about the cost of the incentives (covered by the manufacturer), only about efficient targeting. Smith, 2009. Berry, 2009. SB09] The Numerati, Stephen Baker, 2009.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 13 December 2009 03:00 PM. The broad Amazon EC2 customer base brings such diversity in workload and utilization patterns that it allows us to operate Amazon EC2 with extreme efficiency. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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