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20 of 20 references

Cloudflare
Directional
Internet infrastructure · Global
Infrastructure observability
Cybersecurity & SIEM
Embedded / customer-facing analytics

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.

Lyft
Directional
Mobility / marketplaces · North America
Infrastructure observability
Customer 360 & product analytics

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.

Instacart
Directional
Grocery marketplace · North America
Fraud detection & investigation
Customer 360 & product analytics
Transaction analytics

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.

QRT (Qube Research & Technologies)
Directional
Quantitative investment · EMEA
Trading & market data analytics
Real-time risk analytics
Regulatory & compliance analytics

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.

Jump Trading
Directional
Proprietary trading · Global
Trading & market data analytics
Real-time risk analytics

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.

SEON
Directional
Fraud prevention (vendor) · EMEA
Fraud detection & investigation
AI/ML fraud & anomaly scoring
Embedded / customer-facing 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.

Silverflow
Directional
Card processing · EMEA
Payments operations & authorisation analytics
Transaction analytics
Embedded / customer-facing 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.

ProcessOut (Checkout.com)
Directional
Payments optimisation · EMEA
Payments operations & authorisation analytics
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.

Qonto
Directional
Business banking · EMEA
Fraud detection & investigation
Transaction analytics
Real-time risk analytics

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.

Mercado Libre / Mercado Pago
Directional
E-commerce & payments · LATAM
Fraud detection & investigation
Payments operations & authorisation analytics
Transaction analytics

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.

Huntress
Directional
Managed security (MDR) · North America
Cybersecurity & SIEM
Infrastructure observability

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.

Clever
Directional
Education technology · North America
Customer 360 & product analytics
Embedded / customer-facing analytics

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.

Contentsquare
Directional
Digital experience analytics (vendor) · EMEA / Global
Customer 360 & product analytics
Embedded / customer-facing analytics

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.

Sony LIV
Directional
Streaming media · APAC
Customer 360 & product analytics
Infrastructure observability
Embedded / customer-facing analytics

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.

Langfuse
Directional
LLM observability (vendor) · EMEA / Global
AI / LLM observability
Infrastructure observability
Embedded / customer-facing analytics

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.

Lovable
Directional
AI developer tools · EMEA / Global
AI / LLM observability
Customer 360 & product analytics
Infrastructure observability

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.

Weights & Biases
Directional
ML platform (vendor) · North America
AI / LLM observability
AI/ML fraud & anomaly scoring
Embedded / customer-facing analytics

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.

Gala Games
Directional
Gaming / web3 · North America
Infrastructure observability
Fraud detection & investigation
Customer 360 & product analytics

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.

Mintlify
Directional
Developer documentation SaaS · North America
Embedded / customer-facing analytics
Infrastructure observability
Customer 360 & product analytics

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.

Padlet
Directional
Collaboration / education SaaS · Global
Customer 360 & product analytics
Embedded / customer-facing analytics

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.