Clickhouse support

[tmcw]

We're strongly considering using Clickhouse as part of our architecture. Clickhouse supports a syntax that is "identical to ANSI SQL" in many cases 😆 https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference

It'd be awesome for Drizzle to support a Clickhouse adapter. I see that two folks have asked about this in discord, but didn't see any issues or discussions.

[205g0]

We're strongly considering using Clickhouse as part of our architecture.

Why? Seriously interested.

I couldn't find anything exciting, maybe I've missed something though.

• Clickhouse seems not to have solid edge drivers, I just found only one with three stars
• Clickhouse doesn't have a good multi-region replication story, they can do this but since it's consistent over replicas (so they're not just read-replicas), writes will have huge latencies in a multi-region setup and you need to think yourself about an extra caching layer
• Too expensive in general, and no low tiers

[tmcw]

It definitely doesn't have good edge drivers yet, but, y'know - that could be drizzle! Their storage on disk is compressed, so it's probably cheaper than it seems - and we'd be running the open source code on our own servers anyway. We're not multi-region yet - this is a three-person startup, not a corporation - and anyway, it's not going to be the main transactional database anyway, it's for a specific, big, mostly-just-writes table.

[205g0]

it's for a specific, big, mostly-just-writes table.

then, just write to them with raw sql, drizzle would be nice but you really need it once you have a complex data model with relations

[alisalahio]

We'd love this as well!

[LilaRest]

Supporting this one also!

[NicholasKao1029]

This would be amazing

[maxdeichmann]

I would love this.

[waynehamadi]

Hmm I think I know why haha (hey Max!)

Very good for logs use cases. Completes postgres very well.