ClickHouse is a database tool I haven’t had a chance to sink my teeth into but heard good things about. Extracting, converting, and querying data in local files using clickhouse-local is an overview of using ClickHouse to work on data hosted on a node.
Sometimes we have to work with files, like CSV or Parquet, resident locally on our computers, readily accessible in S3, or easily exportable from MySQL or Postgres databases. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a tool to analyze and transform the data in those files using the power of SQL, and all of the ClickHouse functions, but without having to deploy a whole database server or write custom Python code?
Fortunately, this is precisely why clickhouse-local was created! The name “local” indicates that it is designed and optimized for data analysis using the local compute resources on your laptop or workstation. In this blog post, we’ll give you an overview of the capabilities of clickhouse-local and how it can increase the productivity of data scientists and engineers working with data in these scenarios.
Also noting yet another database with embedded HTTP request capabilities.