This page seems to cover most of the prerequisites, and some other advice: https://github.com/yandex/ClickHouse/blob/master/doc/build.m...

And it does say this: "With appropriate changes, build should work on any other Linux distribution...Only x86_64 with SSE 4.2 is supported"

Thanks so much for that. It definitely looks like the documentation might be out of sync as there are also some references to ODBC support in the code:

https://github.com/yandex/ClickHouse/blob/32057cf2afa965033c...

Going to look into building a Spark data source for this so we can see how it well it compares to databases like Cassandra.

Not sure, that it is a problem. If you consider to use such scalable system, you certanly will build a completely separate cluster for it. For such case, there is no real difference what distro to use, even if your ops team are redhat/whatever fans

There's definitely a difference from an operational support standpoint. All of your configuration management for security and third-party tooling has to be rebuilt, you have to handle an entirely different set of patches, potentially some of your monitoring software has to be customized to support another OS, etc.

I don't think it's 2x the work to support two different distros, but it's definitely additional overhead that people may not necessarily want to deal with in order to play with something shiny and new.

What's wrong with just running it in a container?

"Enterprise" is a code word for "we have knowledge inhouse and can do anything" and not "the products we buy restrict us to the limitations set by the company we made ourselves depend on". Free and universal thinking, however, is not found very often in companies, so not every company will grow into an "enterprise".