The ClickHouse Community
One of the great “features” of ClickHouse is a friendly and welcoming community. In this article we would like to outline how the ClickHouse community arose, what it is today, and how you can get involved. There is a role for everyone, from end users to contributors to corporate friends. Our goal is to make the community welcoming to every person who wants to join.
But first, let’s review a bit of history, starting with how ClickHouse first developed at Yandex.
Origins at Yandex
ClickHouse began as a solution for web analytics in Yandex Metrica. Metrica is a popular service for analyzing website traffic that is now #2 in the market behind Google Analytics. In 2008 Alexey Milovidov, an engineer on the Metrica team, was looking for a database that could create reports on metrics like number of page views per day, unique visitors, and bounce rate, without aggregating the data in advance. The idea was to provide a wide range of metric data and let use