ClickHouse is a privately owned company headquartered in the US. Founded in 2021, the company has approximately 130 employees. Functioning as a software development firm, ClickHouse developed an open-source column-oriented database management system for online analytical processing, allowing users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
On April 24, 2026, ClickHouse deepened its strategic collaboration with Google Cloud by adding four product and infrastructure integrations, encompassing analytics deployment and processors. These updates include native integration with Google Cloud Lakehouse, the availability of ClickHouse's Bring Your Own Cloud model on Google Cloud, the migration of ClickHouse Cloud on Google Cloud to Google's Axion Arm-based processors, and an integration between the ClickHouse MCP server and Google Antigravity. Previously, on April 23, 2026, ClickHouse detailed a complete benchmark setup, outlining dataset, queries, hardware, and system configuration, to position its platform as an alternative for log analytics traditionally handled by Elasticsearch, showcasing storage footprint and query runtimes.