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ClickHouse vs Materialize comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 23, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

ClickHouse
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (3rd), Vector Databases (7th)
Materialize
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
AWS Marketplace (292nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

ClickHouse and Materialize aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. ClickHouse is designed for Open Source Databases and holds a mindshare of 6.6%, up 2.8% compared to last year.
Materialize, on the other hand, focuses on AWS Marketplace, holds 0.1% mindshare, up 0.1% since last year.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ClickHouse6.6%
PostgreSQL14.4%
Firebird SQL11.9%
Other67.1%
Open Source Databases
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Materialize0.1%
Stardog Enterprise Knowledge Graph Platform1.0%
CTG Cross-Border VPC Connection (Asia Pacific:HongKong-China:Beijing)0.9%
Other98.0%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2785038 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
Data observability has enabled real‑time analytics and cost savings but needs smoother inserts and cleanup
ClickHouse could be improved concerning data insertion, especially given the high amount of data handled. Constant efforts are made to optimize the features on its own, but with merges and inserts, only a single insert query can be performed allowing for the input of only 100,000 rows per second. It would be beneficial to insert more data and have configurations that are less user-operated. Ideally, ClickHouse would optimize itself to handle these processes automatically, reducing the need to contact the ClickHouse support team for infrastructure optimization. Additionally, delays are experienced when trying to delete databases with corrupt data, taking too much time and causing major outages, which necessitate contacting multiple teams across continents for resolution. The community surrounding ClickHouse also seems limited, providing a reliance on documentation, and there is a scarcity of developers working with ClickHouse, which hinders growth. If ClickHouse were more user-friendly and technically feasible, it would likely see greater expansion in usage.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Construction Company
54%
Healthcare Company
9%
Insurance Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise8
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ClickHouse?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was such that the setup costs were just my own bandwidth, while licensing and pricing were done by other members of the team so it was abstract...
What needs improvement with ClickHouse?
ClickHouse can be improved on the documentation side, and there is one small constraint that is mentioned in ClickHouse documentation, which is a partition limit of ten thousand that we hit, so if ...
What is your primary use case for ClickHouse?
My main use case for ClickHouse is data ingestion and for its OLAP properties, as we had use cases where database locks were slowing us down and because ClickHouse does not have that, we chose to u...
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