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Looks really cool! Great work!

Had a pricing question. Say we connected a log forwarder like Vector to send data to Clickhouse Cloud, once per second. If each write unit is $0.0125, and we execute 86,400 writes over the course of the day, would we end up spending $1080? Do you only really support large batch, low frequency writes?




Hi Cliff - A write unit does not correspond to a single INSERT. A single INSERT with less than 16MB of data generates ~0.01 “write unit”, so a single “write unit” typically corresponds to ~100 INSERTs. In your example, that would come closer to $11 a day. Depending on how small of batches you plan to write in that examples, there may be ways to reduce that spend further, by batching even more or turning on "async_insert" inside ClickHouse.




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