ClickHouse/ClickBench

ClickBench: a Benchmark For Analytical Databases

Is ClickHouse/ClickBench beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, ClickHouse/ClickBench merged 30 of 52 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

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How to contribute to ClickHouse/ClickBench

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

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  • suggest add an auto tranlsate feature for playground
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#2650 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Update benchmark for polars
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#2425 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • doris-parquet-single fails before measurement on c6a.xlarge: FE cannot commit its 8 GiB initial heap
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#2208 · 2 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Consider removing partitioned variants of Parquet, Data Lake, Vortex
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#2146 · 1 comment ·

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  • Refresh CHYT benchmark results
    Open
    close in a month if not active help wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#1459 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Versions benchmark: Run TPC-H and TPC-DS queries in standard-compatible mode
    Open
    close in a month if not active

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#1322 ·

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  • Add Apache Kylin
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#1089 ·

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  • Add SynnoDB
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#960 · 3 comments ·

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  • concurrent_qps measures swap-thrashing, not throughput, for single-process engines (introduced in #860)
    May be free again @george-larionov claimed this 138 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#946 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

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  • Some, but not all scripts report "load time" for stateless engines (time to download parquet and sync)
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#944 · 1 reaction ·

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  • ClickHouse: Cold runs preload data into memory before the timer
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#941 · 1 comment · 5 reactions ·

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  • Methodology: 3 hot iterations is insufficient for JVM-based engines
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#934 · 3 comments · 5 reactions ·

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  • "System & Machine" column should display sw version number(s)
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#639 · 5 comments · 1 reaction ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Add Yellowbrick to ClickBench (someone promised to do it, but didn't)
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#628 · 4 comments ·

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  • MariaDB ColumnStore eats all memory and makes the machine unresponsive
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#545 · 8 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • DuckDB: failed with OOM killer
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#542 · 1 comment ·

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  • Doris、Starrocks、SelectDB can't load data
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#541 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Snowflake CSV - use parallel scan settings for uncompressed CSV
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#408 · 1 comment ·

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  • Add Turso (it is unbelievably slow) (it also does not work)
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#336 · 11 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • InfluxDB benchmarks
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#186 · 2 comments · 3 reactions ·

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  • Add BoilingData to ClickBench
    Open
    help wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#125 · 14 comments ·

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  • The Pinot benchmark does not have indices.
    Open
    help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#37 · 9 comments ·

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  • ClickBench+
    Possibly taken @4ertus2 claimed this 73 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#1488 ·

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  • Add FrigateBird
    Possibly taken @alexey-milovidov claimed this 169 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ClickHouse/ClickBench#809 ·

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