Re:ListenBrainz moves to TimescaleDB
by nwmcsween on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:16PM
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The issue I have with clickhouse is the codebase, it's an absolute behemoth and seemingly embeds musl libc? It also uses a huge amount of SIMD intrinsics for everything when SWAR or really nothing from my view looking in would have been better (memcpy, etc).
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caveat: I'm not familiar with the clickhouse codebase. however, usually "embedding" musl libc is about portability - it allows you to build an entirely static binary that can run on practically any box. is this different?
secondly, I don't get where you're coming from faulting a columnar database for using SIMD! why is memcpy better? it comes across as, 'they worked too hard making it fast'!