ClickHouse Falling Short? Here's CloudNova
ClickHouse is a brilliant OLAP database. If you're crunching analytics data or powering dashboards with structured metrics, it's lightning fast. But when it comes to log analytics and real-time observability, ClickHouse starts to crack under pressure.
That’s because ClickHouse wasn’t designed for log but CloudNova is.
If your engineering team is spending more time tuning queries, building ingestion pipelines, and managing data formats than actually solving problems, it's time to re-evaluate your stack.

The ClickHouse Trade-Off

Let’s give credit where it’s due: ClickHouse offers high performance at a relatively low cost for analytical workloads. But when used for logs, you’ll face friction like:

  • Complex ingestion pipelines - You’ll need to write and maintain ETL code to parse logs into tabular formats
  • Slow queries at scale - Especially when querying large time ranges or nested fields
  • High storage usage - Log volumes grow fast, and columnar formats aren’t optimized for sparse log data
  • Heavy engineering lift - Schema design, custom tooling, and constant tuning eat up cycles
  • Batch ingestion delays - Doesn't support streaming ingestion, forces users to wait for the batch to be complete, and delays real-time insights.

In short: ClickHouse can do log analytics, but only with significant effort—and even then, it’s not real-time.

👉 Check out how our CloudNova is 54x faster than ClickHouse.

Why CloudNova Outperforms for Observability

CloudNova is designed from the ground up for logs and observability workloads. It offers all the performance of ClickHouse, but without the engineering overhead or compromises in usability.

⚡ Built for Log Data

No need to flatten logs into tables. CloudNova understands nested, unstructured data natively out of the box.

🧩 Zero ETL Required

Logs go in as-is. Query instantly. CloudNova automatically optimizes storage and retrieval, so you don’t need to write custom pipelines. It also supports log ingestion through multiple protocols, making integration seamless.

🚀 Sub-Second Queries at Scale

Even on billions of logs, CloudNova delivers real-time query speeds without pre-aggregation or indexing.

💾 Up to 80% Storage Savings

With compression tailored to log data and efficient streaming architecture, CloudNova drastically reduces infrastructure costs.

🧘‍♀️ No Ops Overhead

Unlike ClickHouse clusters that need to be constantly tuned and scaled, CloudNova is cloud-native, self-optimizing, and developer-first.

CloudNova vs. ClickHouse: At a Glance

CloudNova vs. ClickHouse

Why Engineers Choose CloudNova

ClickHouse is powerful, butnot purpose-built for observability. If you’re tired of fighting your tools and want a system that works with your data not against it, CloudNova is the clear choice.

    🔧 No schema wrangling
    📊 Real-time dashboards that actually update in real time
    💸 Cost-effective at scale
    😌 Dev-friendly, with zero-tuning required

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