Yeah, I'd think about that for the analytics use case. It's interesting technology and I always keep an eye out for what Influx can learn from these other projects. This CloudFlare post is on my readlist to learn more about it: https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-analytics-for-6m-requests-p...
I did not. One of the benefits from TimescaleDB is the ease of development and using standard queries and indexes to deal with the data. It would be another system for us to spin up on.
The issue for an operational workload like this with Clickhouse might be the lack of direct support for UPDATE and DELETE. The workarounds required would add additional complexity, I think.