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Re:Ask HN: Where to Store Logs? on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:20PM (#37969746)
I'll have to look into Clickhouse, thanks.

What are the main alternatives to Clickhouse, and how do they fare?

Ask HN: Where to Store Logs?

Say you have a web application and want to store events like page views, clicks, etc. for analytics.Where should this data be stored? Is it considered acceptable for the web server to just INSERT every event directly into a SQL database table? If so, then at what volume of throughput does that break, and how should one handle higher scale?Let's say that this is for a website where users can...

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