ClickHouse: The database that lets you have it all

Today's businesses aren't analyzing data only internally; they're serving analytics and other business intelligence directly to their customers. That shift requires infrastructure to deliver on three areas: speed, scalability and efficiency. Historically, engineering teams had to choose two.

Traditional analytical databases were built for batch jobs and internal business intelligence. But as companies serve dashboards and real-time insights directly to customers, modern enterprises require systems that can handle petabyte-scale datasets and process complex queries in milliseconds instead of minutes — without ballooning infrastructure costs.

ClickHouse delivers on all three, which is why IVP is joining the company’s $350 million Series C.

ClickHouse: Better, faster, cheaper — no compromise necessary

ClickHouse shatters the conventional “pick two, sacrifice one” notion of the analytical database triangle:

Data better: ClickHouse adopts a columnar architecture for analytical workloads, thus scaling horizontally to handle massive data volumes.

Data faster: ClickHouse processes complex queries up to 100x faster than traditional solutions.

Data cheaper: As an open-source solution with a cloud service offering, ClickHouse delivers dramatic cost efficiency: customers have seen a 3-5x reduction in costs compared to existing data platforms. And its flexible pricing model supports this, giving teams better control over their costs and utilization planning.

Better, cheaper, faster unlocks new industries and products that were impossible without ClickHouse: Instacart services real-time analytics directly to retail and advertising partners; Coinbase refreshes cryptocurrency valuations every few minutes; Flock Safety gives police departments and property managers up-to-the-minute video footage.

A leadership team built to solve enterprise data needs

ClickHouse’s leaders form a unique triangle, too — of complementary technical and business skills and experience that make them difficult to compete against.

Co-founder and CEO Aaron Katz brings deep go-to-market expertise from his leadership roles at Elastic and Salesforce, orienting him toward customer needs and organizational buying patterns.

President Yury Izrailevsky brings decades of distributed systems experience from Google and Netflix, where he helped scale some of the largest platforms in the world.

CTO Alexey Milovidov created ClickHouse inside Yandex to solve demanding internal analytics challenges – and continues to guide its architectural evolution.

Together, Aaron, Yury and Alexey form one of the most technically rigorous and mission-driven teams in modern data infrastructure, with more than 2,000 paying cloud customers across fintech, security, media and developer tools sectors.

Making ClickHouse customers very happy, very fast

What sets ClickHouse apart isn't just the "speeds and feeds" of technical specifications. In our conversations with customers, we heard a consistent theme: ClickHouse makes their teams look like heroes.

One customer put it this way: "The response time is in milliseconds, which makes our customers very happy." That kind of speed doesn’t just show up in benchmarks. It drives better product experiences, tighter feedback loops and the kind of loyalty that technical advantages alone cannot secure.

AI will push current analytical databases to their limits and ClickHouse offers a clear path forward — one where performance, scalability and cost-efficiency no longer require compromise. We’re proud to partner with a team that understands that the ClickHouse product is about supercharging business outcomes and delighting customers.