>Datasets never become big enough…

Not only is this a contrived non-comparison, but the statement itself is readily disproven by the limitations basically _everyone_ using single instance ClickHouse often run into if they actually have a large dataset.

Spark and Hadoop have their place, maybe not in rinky dink startup land, but definitely in the world of petabyte and exabyte data processing.

When a single server is not enough, you deploy ClickHouse on a cluster, up to thousands of machines, e.g., https://clickhouse.com/blog/how-clickhouse-powers-ahrefs-the...