ClickHouse Architecture and Core Technologies Overview
ClickHouse is an open‑source, massively parallel, column‑oriented OLAP database that integrates its own columnar storage, vectorized batch processing, pre‑sorted data, diverse table engines, extensive data types, sharding with replication, sparse primary‑key and skip indexes, and a multithreaded query engine, delivering high‑throughput real‑time analytics on massive datasets.