If you can afford rare, batched updates, it sucks much less.

Anyway, yes, if your data is highly mutable, or you cannot do batch writes, then yes, Clickhouse is a wrong choice. Otherwise... it is _really_ hard to ignore 50x (or more) speedup.

Logs, events, metrics, rarely updated things like phone numbers or geocoding, archives, embeddings... Whoooop — it slurps entire Reddit in 48 seconds. Straight from S3. Magic.

If you still want really fast analytics, but have more complex scenarios and/or data loading practices, there's also Kinetica... if you can afford the price. For tiny datasets (a few terabytes), DuckDB might be a great choice too. But Postgres is usually a wrong thing to make work.