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Summary

At its 2026 user conference in San Francisco, ClickHouse reports surpassing 4,000 customers and $250 million in annual run-rate revenue, while marking nearly ten years since Alexey Milovidov open-sourced the database. The company attributes its growth to a community of contributors and describes use across AI products, financial services, observability, analytics, and infrastructure. New offerings include ClickHouse Agents, a fully managed agentic analytics service powered by Anthropic’s Claude; CostBench, an open benchmark using each warehouse’s real billing model; and House Mates, a partner program launching with more than 50 partners across six continents. Additional updates include Managed Postgres in public beta, Managed ClickStack and Langfuse for AI-era observability, generally available full-text search, and automatic JOIN optimization, with cost-performance identified as the central constraint for high-concurrency, low-latency workloads.

Takeaways

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   ClickHouse Agents provides a chat interface, sandboxed code interpreter, shareable artifacts, skills, memory, multi-agent workflows, and native connections to ClickHouse and MCP-compatible systems.

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   CostBench runs the same workload against cloud data warehouses while applying each service’s actual billing model, enabling apples-to-apples cost comparisons.

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   House Mates launches as ClickHouse’s first formal partner program, with more than 50 partners across six continents at launch.