# Building a Modern Analytics Stack Around ClickHouse

DevFeed: [Building a Modern Analytics Stack Around ClickHouse](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-a-modern-analytics-stack-around-clickhouse-19109.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://severalnines.com/blog/building-a-modern-analytics-stack-around-clickhouse/>)

Author: Sebastian Insausti

Published: 2026-07-01T10:35:21Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SeveralNines](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/severalnines.md>)

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [NVMe](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvme.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>), [IO](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/io.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [analytics-stack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics-stack.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [cta](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cta.md>), [database-general](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database-general.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql.md>), [nvme](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvme.md>), [olap](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/olap.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how ClickHouse fits into a modern analytics stack alongside relational databases, Redis, and Prometheus. It describes ClickHouse as an open-source column-oriented DBMS for analytical workloads and discusses columnar storage, distributed processing, replication, and near-real-time ingestion.

## Source excerpt

Historically, relational databases did double duty. The same PostgreSQL / MySQL instance that handled your application's writes also answered your business questions. A well-indexed schema, a few GROUP BY reports, done. And that works, right up until it doesn't: the reports get slower, the dashboards start eating the same I/O budget as the application; or, [...] The post Building a Modern Analytics Stack Around ClickHouse appeared first on Severalnines.