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I'm a little surprised that Amazon hasn't created ClickHouse as a Service. They've done it for Elasticsearch, Presto (Athena), Hadoop, Kafka, MySQL, PostgreSQL. ClickHouse seems like it would fit with their strategy of offing a datastore as a service. While AWS does have things like Redshift and Timestream, it seems like ClickHouse offers a lot of potential untapped value that Amazon could capture.

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They may be working on it already. Such a product would take awhile to create. It was only in September of this year that Clickhouse was spun out of Yandex and quickly raised a Series A + B.

But Clickhouse spinning off from Yandex is not a requirement for an AWS offering, right?

At this point product strategy for these companies must be built with Amazon in mind, with a goal of outpacing them at the juncture that AWS would be able to take a bite of the market share easily.

As much as it sucks to have been an OSS-ish product Amazon has taken a chunk out of, the game is now known and can be proactively neutered with good planning.

I am wondering whether it would a rival project to redshift?

You mean ParAccel? :P

Well Clickhouse has been open source for quite some time. The reason I could think of Amazon not doing it is because the demand are low. Clickhouse still isn't mainstream yet.

But with CH they don't get that sweet sweet vendor lock in like with Dynamo or Kinesis.

Many of those were introduced sometime after they because mainstream.

That'd be awesome actually.

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