Clickhouse cluster can run without Zookeeper and without replication. Data durability may be provided by using durable storage such as Google Compute Engine disks [1].
Data ingestion process may be accelerated without resorting to Kafka - just insert data into Buffer table [2].
[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/#pdspecs
[2] https://clickhouse.yandex/docs/en/operations/table_engines/b...
It would also be ideal if they could accelerate the data ingestion process somehow without the need to buffer chunks with yet another moving piece like Kafka.
I guess ideally, I'm looking for some kind of standalone HTAP system minus transactional guarantees.