Data Warehouse for ClickHouse®: Power without compromise

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Régis Tesseyre
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In the world of modern data engineering, speed isn't just a luxury, it’s a requirement. As data volumes explode, the gap between collecting data and deriving value is often filled with infrastructure headaches, scaling bottlenecks, and spiraling costs.

Today, we are thrilled to bridge that gap, with the General Availability (GA) of Scaleway Data Warehouse for ClickHouse®.

Whether you are a data engineer tired of babysitting nodes or a data scientist needing sub-second queries on billions of rows, our fully managed solution is designed to let you focus on insights, not operations.

Why ClickHouse? The gold standard for OLAP

ClickHouse has earned its reputation as the fastest column-oriented database management system in the world. By utilizing columnar storage and vectorized query execution, it allows for analytical processing (OLAP) at speeds that traditional row-based databases simply cannot match.

However, while ClickHouse is incredibly powerful, self-hosting it at scale is notoriously complex. Managing shard configurations, and hardware provisioning can quickly drain your team’s productivity.

Performance without the complexity

Scaleway Data Warehouse for ClickHouse® takes the raw power of ClickHouse and wraps it in a seamless, cloud-native experience. Here is how we’re changing the game for data teams:

1. Built for modern data workloads

Resource allocation (vCPU, RAM) automatically adjusts up or down based on your workloads. Forget about manual partitioning or hardware procurement, our managed service allows you to scale your resources with just a few clicks. As your data grows from gigabytes to petabytes, your infrastructure adapts, ensuring consistent performance without the manual labor.

2. Predictable cost control

Data strategy shouldn't be a gamble. While many cloud providers lure users in with low entry costs only to surprise them with egress taxes and complex billing units later on, Scaleway’s commitment to transparency remains at the core of our Managed ClickHouse® offering.

  • Transparent pricing: We’ve moved away from the industry trend of proprietary compute units that are impossible to forecast. Instead, your costs are tied directly to clear, understandable metrics: vCPU and Object Storage. You know exactly what you’re paying for.
  • Egress included: Stop worrying about the cost of retrieving your own data. With Scaleway, data transfer is included, allowing you to run intensive queries and export results to your apps or dashboards without fear of hidden fees.
  • Observability with Scaleway Cockpit: Don't wait for the end of the month to understand your consumption. Our Data Warehouse integrates natively with Scaleway Cockpit, giving you a real-time view of your performance and resource usage. This level of monitoring allows you to optimize your instances proactively and keep your budget aligned with your needs.

3. Security and compliance

Security isn't an afterthought, it's the foundation. With our VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) integration, your Data Warehouse remains isolated from the public internet. You can connect your ClickHouse deployment directly to other Scaleway resources like Private Networks and Load Balancers, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your secure perimeter.

With data hosted in our European data centers, you benefit from strict GDPR compliance and robust security protocols. Your sensitive analytical data remains protected and sovereign.

What can you build with a managed ClickHouse® environment?

The possibilities are endless:

  • Real-time dashboards: Run internal or customer-facing analytics with sub-second response times.
  • Log management and Observability: Aggregate and query massive streams of logs and events in real-time.
  • Machine Learning: Use ClickHouse as a high-speed feature store to feed your models with the freshest data available.
  • Ad-Tech and Fintech: Process high-frequency transactional data for fraud detection or bidding optimizations.

Stop managing clusters, start querying data

The General Availability of Data Warehouse for ClickHouse® is a major milestone in Scaleway's mission to build a comprehensive, high-performance data ecosystem. By removing the infrastructure tax, we enable your data engineers and analysts to do what they do best: transform raw numbers into business-defining strategies.

A growing Data & AI platform

ClickHouse is just the beginning. We are rapidly expanding our data and AI suite to provide a seamless end-to-end experience for modern data stacks.

Whether you are looking for real-time streaming, advanced search, workflow automation or Generative APIs and Managed Inference, Scaleway has you covered:

Ready to experience the fastest analytics on the market? Deploy your Data Warehouse for ClickHouse® today and see the difference managed performance makes.