ClickHouse welcomes PeerDB: Adding the fastest Postgres CDC to the fastest OLAP database
We are thrilled to announce today that ClickHouse is joining forces with PeerDB, a Change Data Capture (CDC) provider focused on Postgres, and we’re happy to welcome the PeerDB team and community into the ClickHouse family.
We believe that by combining our efforts, we’ll be able to offer a seamless and efficient integration between two leading open-source databases: Postgres and ClickHouse. This will enable bridging the gap between transactional and analytical workloads and unlock more value for users and developers. Moreover, when we met with the PeerDB team, we became even more excited because of the clear cultural fit between our companies, as well as the alignment of our engineering (performance-focused!) cultures.
There’s a lot to be said about the Postgres and ClickHouse pair. On one hand, Postgres slowly but surely rose to its current position as the almost de facto transactional backend of the web. Renowned for its reliability, open-source roots, comprehensive feature set, and strong support for transactional workloads, it wasn’t surprising to see the 2024 StackOverflow survey rank Postgres as the number one database for the second year in a row.
On the other hand, in the analytics space, a similar development took place with ClickHouse over the last decade. As an open-source, high-performance, columnar database optimized for real-time analytics and handling large volumes of data with no compromise on speed and efficiency, ClickHouse’s wide adoption is a testament to the ever-growing need for real-time analytics in modern software.
