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Challenge
Analytics over internet-scale HTTP and security event traffic, served both internally and to millions of customers in-product.
Approach
Large ClickHouse deployment replacing earlier time-series infrastructure, with aggressive pre-aggregation for per-customer dashboards.
Outcomes
- · Internet-scale event ingest with interactive query latency
- · Customer-facing analytics served from the same platform as internal analysis
- · Substantially lower infrastructure footprint than the previous stack
Trillions of rows; multi-PB scale.
Soundbite
One of the largest public examples of ClickHouse running customer-facing analytics at internet scale.
Challenge
Operational analytics and observability across a large microservice estate with cost pressure on the incumbent tooling.
Approach
ClickHouse as the store for high-volume operational telemetry and real-time marketplace metrics.
Outcomes
- · Interactive queries over high-volume operational data
- · Reduced cost per GB of telemetry retained
- · Faster incident investigation for platform teams
Soundbite
Large-scale marketplace operations backed by real-time analytics rather than batch reporting.
Challenge
Marketplace abuse and fraud patterns spanning shoppers, customers and orders needed fast detection across large event volumes.
Approach
Event pipelines into ClickHouse to power near-real-time detection features and analyst investigation.
Outcomes
- · Detection and investigation on fresh data instead of batch cycles
- · Analysts able to pivot across full event history interactively
Soundbite
Marketplace fraud and operational analytics moved from batch to near-real-time.
Challenge
Quantitative research over enormous tick and market data histories, where research iteration speed drives returns.
Approach
ClickHouse as the research data platform for time-series market data at trillions of rows.
Outcomes
- · Interactive access to full-history market data
- · Faster research iteration for quantitative teams
- · Cost-effective long retention of tick data
Trillions of rows of market data.
Soundbite
Quant research on full tick history instead of samples.
Challenge
Ultra-high-volume market data analytics where query latency directly constrains research throughput.
Approach
ClickHouse for time-series market data analysis alongside specialised in-house systems.
Outcomes
- · High-throughput ingest of market data
- · Low-latency analytical access for research and TCA
Soundbite
A demanding trading environment using ClickHouse for market data analytics.
Challenge
A fraud-prevention vendor needing to serve real-time risk signals and customer-facing analytics to its own clients.
Approach
ClickHouse behind the product for event storage, feature aggregation and multi-tenant analytics.
Outcomes
- · Real-time risk signals served at product latency
- · Customer-facing analytics without per-query cost blowups
Soundbite
A fraud vendor building its product on ClickHouse for real-time signals and tenant analytics.
Challenge
A cloud-native card processor needing transparent, real-time transaction analytics for merchants and internal ops.
Approach
ClickHouse as the analytics layer over payment event streams and processor responses.
Outcomes
- · Real-time transaction visibility for customers
- · Operational insight into processor behaviour
Soundbite
Modern card processing with merchant-facing real-time transaction analytics.
Challenge
Authorisation-rate optimisation requires analysing every attempt, decline reason and retry across processors.
Approach
ClickHouse for high-volume authorisation event analytics powering routing and merchant reporting.
Outcomes
- · Fast detection of processor performance changes
- · Data-driven routing and retry decisions
Soundbite
Payment performance analytics built on per-attempt event data.
Challenge
A regulated neobank needing real-time transaction monitoring, fraud detection and internal analytics.
Approach
ClickHouse for transaction and behavioural analytics, fed from operational systems and streams.
Outcomes
- · Faster transaction monitoring and fraud review
- · Analytics decoupled from operational databases
Soundbite
Regulated European banking analytics running on ClickHouse.
Challenge
Continental-scale marketplace and payments platform with enormous event volumes and real-time fraud requirements.
Approach
ClickHouse for large-scale real-time analytics across commerce and payment events.
Outcomes
- · Real-time analytics at continental marketplace scale
- · Fraud and payments teams working from fresh data
Soundbite
One of LATAM's largest platforms running real-time analytics on ClickHouse.
Challenge
Security telemetry from many managed endpoints, where SIEM-style pricing made full collection unaffordable.
Approach
ClickHouse as the security data lake supporting detection and analyst hunting.
Outcomes
- · More telemetry retained for longer
- · Faster analyst investigation across the estate
Soundbite
A security vendor storing and hunting over full telemetry rather than sampled logs.
Challenge
Usage analytics across school districts, delivered to institutional customers with predictable cost.
Approach
ClickHouse serving multi-tenant usage analytics with pre-aggregated rollups.
Outcomes
- · District-facing analytics at interactive speed
- · Cost per tenant kept predictable as usage grew
Soundbite
Institution-facing usage analytics with stable unit economics.
Challenge
A behavioural analytics vendor serving interactive session analytics to enterprise customers at web scale.
Approach
ClickHouse as a core analytical engine for high-volume behavioural events.
Outcomes
- · Interactive analysis over very large behavioural datasets
- · Product performance decoupled from data growth
Soundbite
An analytics vendor whose own product speed depends on ClickHouse.
Challenge
Streaming quality-of-experience and audience analytics during large live events with extreme traffic spikes.
Approach
ClickHouse for real-time viewership and QoE metrics during live sport and entertainment.
Outcomes
- · Real-time visibility during peak live events
- · Operational decisions made during, not after, a broadcast
Soundbite
Live-event streaming analytics with second-level freshness at peak concurrency.
Challenge
Storing and querying LLM traces, prompts and evaluation results for many customer projects.
Approach
ClickHouse as the trace and analytics store behind an open-source LLM observability platform.
Outcomes
- · Trace analytics at product latency
- · Scalable multi-tenant retention of large text payloads
Soundbite
The LLM observability category is being built on ClickHouse.
Challenge
Rapidly growing AI product needing usage, cost and quality analytics without building a data team first.
Approach
ClickHouse for product and LLM usage analytics feeding internal decisions and unit-economics tracking.
Outcomes
- · Fast product analytics at hypergrowth ingest rates
- · Per-feature cost attribution for AI spend
Soundbite
A hypergrowth AI product tracking usage and unit economics in real time.
Challenge
Experiment and model telemetry from thousands of ML teams, queried interactively inside the product.
Approach
ClickHouse powering high-volume metric and trace analytics for the ML platform.
Outcomes
- · Interactive experiment analytics at scale
- · Sustainable cost as customer telemetry grew
Soundbite
ML platform telemetry served interactively from ClickHouse.
Challenge
Player, economy and infrastructure telemetry across games with unpredictable growth.
Approach
ClickHouse for real-time game and platform analytics including abuse detection.
Outcomes
- · Real-time visibility into player economy and platform health
- · Lower analytics cost per player
Soundbite
Game economy and platform telemetry analysed in real time.
Challenge
Delivering per-customer documentation analytics without operating a heavy data platform.
Approach
ClickHouse as the analytics backend for customer-facing documentation insights.
Outcomes
- · Customer-facing analytics shipped by a small team
- · Predictable cost as customers scaled
Soundbite
A small team shipping customer-facing analytics without a data platform org.
Challenge
Product usage analytics across a very large user base with a small engineering team.
Approach
ClickHouse replacing slower general-purpose analytics queries for product and usage insight.
Outcomes
- · Order-of-magnitude faster product analytics queries
- · Analytics load removed from the operational database
Soundbite
Product analytics moved off the operational database and got dramatically faster.