Ten years of ClickHouse in open source

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ClickHouse marks ten years since its open-source release and highlights how it grew into a leading analytical database with thousands of contributors. The piece explains the project’s engineering philosophy, including transparent development, experimentation, documentation, and strong contributor recognition. It also walks through the system’s early prototypes, technical evolution, and the path from internal production use to a public release. The article ends by framing ClickHouse as both a database platform and a learning resource for software engineers.

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