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Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by maxdo on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:28PM (#48751946)
Mobile chrome safari not supported , curious why
Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by samwillis on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:31PM (#48751976)
They have compiled to WASM64, the newer 64bit version of WASM. That's not available on iOS yet.

WASM till recently has had a 32bit address space, to match the limitations of JS numbers. With 64bit WASM you have to use BigInt rather than the floats that are numbers in js to address the memory.

It's only the address space that's affected - old WASM still handled 64bit math fine.

Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by jamwise on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @05:23PM (#48753309)
Safari is the new IE
Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by mixermachine on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:19PM (#48753898)
Works on Brave (Chromium) with Android 16
Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by eis on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:56PM (#48752272)
I like the initiative but would love if there was a heavily stripped down version, it seems this one needs to download 95mb+. DuckDB also has a WASM version which is also not tiny but comes in at something like 36mb if I recall correctly.
Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by wseqyrku on Thursday July 02, 2026 @06:44AM (#48759341)
What's your redline download size?
Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by sourdecor on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:52PM (#48752954)
Is the point of this privacy, offline analytics, or eliminating server costs, and does that survive the download cost of 95 megabytes?
Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by chatmasta on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:47PM (#48754143)
WebAssembly doesn’t run only in the browser. WebAssembly runtimes can be effective sandboxing mechanisms for embedded plugins, serverless execution, etc.
Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by dennis16384 on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:01PM (#48753696)
People still complain about 95mb download in 2026. It's literally 2 minutes of 1080p youtube watching.

Why bring server software to edge devices? Because its fucking awesome!

Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by wseqyrku on Thursday July 02, 2026 @02:37AM (#48757390)
It's the equivalent of chatbots where they are reading too much into your prompt and you have to constantly tell em "don't worry about that"
Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by aPoCoMiLogin on Saturday July 04, 2026 @03:00PM (#48787915)
if only that would work
Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by glaucon on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:35PM (#48754045)
I appreciate that in global terms I live a life of data privilege, but I really don't think a 95mb download is any problem at all if the thing I'm downloading has utility.
Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by jauntywundrkind on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:55PM (#48754224)
Aside: nice /item?id= here on this submission! 48750000.
Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by pmarreck on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @07:03PM (#48754292)
This is impressive! What's the stack? What drives the CLI-in-browser (libghostty?) What did you compile to wasm with (rust? zig? emscripten?)
Re:A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly by syrusakbary on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @08:16PM (#48754817)
Excited on what this brings to the server-side :)