Getting started with Public Cloud Analytics with ClickHouse

ClickHouse on OVHcloud is a fully managed, high-performance analytical column-store database designed to handle massive data volumes with extremely low latency. Built on the open-source ClickHouse engine, the service is tailored for real-time Analytics, large-scale reporting, modern BI workloads, and any application that requires ultra-fast queries over large datasets. Your data is stored in a columnar, partitioned, and distributed format, enabling OVHcloud to deliver highly parallel processing, high-throughput ingestion, and excellent compression efficiency. With intuitive management through the OVHcloud Control Panel (or API/Terraform), you can deploy and configure ClickHouse clusters within minutes, offloading infrastructure operations such as maintenance, scaling, and high availability. This lets you focus entirely on extracting value from your data rather than managing backend systems.

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Discover how OVHcloud’s Managed ClickHouse service enables you to deploy and operate fully managed, high-performance analytical clusters in the Public Cloud, complete with distributed storage, column-oriented processing, real-time ingestion, advanced compression, and effortless scalability. Benefit from built-in high availability, seamless integration with OVHcloud networking options, Terraform support for automated provisioning, and competitive pay-as-you-go pricing. Learn more on the ClickHouse product page.

Pricing

Find detailed hourly and monthly rates for OVHcloud Public Cloud services — including virtual instances, managed databases, and Analytics solutions with ClickHouse plans — on the ClickHouse pricing page.

Capabilities

Discover the technical capabilities and limitations of OVHcloud’s Managed ClickHouse with detailed guidance on supported versions, cluster configurations, resource limits, networking, backups, security, users, query optimizations, and much more on this support page: ClickHouse capabilities and limitations.

Create a cluster

Explore step-by-step instructions on how to create a Managed ClickHouse cluster on OVHcloud Public Cloud via the OVHcloud Control Panel, including datacenter selection, plan choice, instance configuration, storage sizing, and cluster setup options in the following guide: Create a ClickHouse cluster.

Configure cluster for incoming connections

Explore practical guidance on how to configure your OVHcloud Public Cloud ClickHouse cluster to accept incoming connections, covering access setup via the OVHcloud Control Panel or the OVHcloud API and essential network settings in the following guide: Configure ClickHouse cluster connections.

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ClickHouse Official documentation

ClickHouse clients

Some UI tools for ClickHouse are also available:

• Tabix
• Redash
• Altinity

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