In this lesson we will:
- Learn why we need to integrate ClickHouse with other tools.
We recommend using a free ClickHouse Cloud Account when studying this lesson
Integrations
In order to build a data and analytics platform, we will need more than just a central database. The obvious capabilities that we will require include:
- Reporting and dashboarding tools for presenting information in an easily accessible format;
- Tools for loading data into the database;
- Orchestration tools for managing and monitoring automated jobs;
- Transformation tools for organising and cleaning data either before or after it is loaded into the database;
- Data quality and observability tools for monitoring the state of data within your database.
As such, we will likely need to choose tools and combine them into a stack in order to build the end-to-end solution.
Compatibility
Even though ClickHouse doesn't have the brand recognition of database such as MySQL and Snowflake, a surprising amount of tools in all of the above categories do have native support for it.
Even where ClickHouse is not specifically supported, we do have a number of options:
- ClickHouse has a feature where it can provide a Postgres
- ClickHouse has a MySQL compatible interface.
- ClickHouse has a JDBC compatible interface.
As these interfaces are very stable and performant, this massively widens the pool of tools that ClickHouse can be integrated with.