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> Note that we do not store any data about the traffic content flowing through your tunnels—we only ever look at metadata. While you have the ability to enable full capture mode of all your traffic and can opt in to this service, we never store or analyze this data in our data platform. Instead, we use Clickhouse with a short data retention period in a completely separate platform and strong access controls to store this information and make it available to customers.

Don't worry, your sensitive data isn't handled by our platform, we ship it to a third-party instead. This is for your protection!

(I have no idea if Clickhouse is actually a third party, it sounds like one though?)

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Clickhouse must be the worst named product in popular use. I know it's a DB, but every time I read it, it sounds like a marketing/Ads company for privacy invasive tracking.

Well, that's what it was originally designed to store/solve; that being Yandex's analytics platform.

https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/about-us/history

That makes a lot of sense.

Clickhouse is a database. It has cloud offering.

What's the point of clickhouse cloud?when you can just use bigquery and run queries on billions of row.

I am genuinely curious what case does clickhouse serve over bigquery.

It’s actually open source, you can self-host it easily enough, you can push a single instance pretty far too.

It’ll also happily read from disaggregated storage and is compatible with parquet and friends and a stack of other formats. I’ve not really used BigQuery in anger, but the ClickHouse performance is really, really good.

I guess ultimately, all the same benefits, and a lot fewer downsides.

- non proprietary

- open source

- run it locally

- SQL like syntax

- tons of plugins

- not by Google

A different platform doesn't mean third party. It can just mean you have completely separated things so that none of the data tooling discussed here has any ability to access it.

Not sure what you mean... Do you mean they run software called Clickhouse on their own infra, just separated from the other parts of their backend? To me it reads like they were shipping the data off to a third-party named Clickhouse, especially with "we never store or analyze this data in our data platform" (does data platform refer to ngrok itself or what?).

There is a database called clickhouse, while the company offers services and hosting many run clickhouse on their own infra.

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