# What a difference 10 years of open source makes

DevFeed: [What a difference 10 years of open source makes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-a-difference-10-years-of-open-source-makes-5632.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/what-a-difference-10-years-of-open-source-makes>)

Author: Al Brown

Published: 2026-06-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ClickHouse Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clickhouse-blog.md>)

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmarking.md>)

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## AI overview

ClickHouse reviews a decade of open-source development, highlighting contributor growth, frequent releases, major performance improvements in join-heavy workloads, and newer capabilities including SQL updates and deletes, JSON, full-text search, and vector search.

## Source excerpt

On June 15, 2016, ClickHouse went open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Ten years later, it's one of the most widely deployed analytical databases in the world.