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Comment by DAlperin | Hacker News Reader

Super neat! Does the v2 branding mean that the more "fully featured" observability product is going away? Or is it all going to be rebuilt on top of clickhouse?

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Our v1 is completely built on Clickhouse! So v2 is making it more widely compatible to Clickhouse installations that aren't tied to our ingestion pipeline and schema. So if you're already on Clickhouse for obseravbility today, or have a preferred way of shipping data in, you can use us on top of Clickhouse now without throwing away your existing work.

We're essentially making our existing product a lot easier to deploy into more complex observability setups based on Clickhouse - while also shipping a few new capabilities like SQL and event deltas while we're at it!

Timeplus Proton [1] is an OSS fork of Clickhouse that adds support for streaming queries. Timeplus Proton is wire-compatible with Clickhouse and its streaming support makes the log tailing use case you mentioned above easy to setup:

> - You can live tail events, I don't think Grafana for Clickhouse has that (I'm a big fan of tail -f)

So it sounds like your v2 will work with any DB that is wire-compatible with Clickhouse, correct?

[1] https://github.com/timeplus-io/proton

Yup it'd work if the Clickhouse HTTP interface is preserved, along with the CH-specific functions/settings we leverage. (I'm not sure how deviated your fork is from CH and which version it's based on)

Proton looks like a neat queue/db combo - I'm going to have to dive in deeper some time

I should gently point out that Proton is maintained by Timeplus [1] making it COSS (Commercial OSS) so it is definitely not my fork of ClickHouse :)

[1] https://www.timeplus.com/

Streaming queries is coming in ClickHouse too: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/63312

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