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ClickHouse Prunes Granules with a Bloom Filter Skip Index

Oct 22, 2026 22 min read Jay Hubbert

ClickHouse’s bloom_filter skip index keeps one bitset per granule and derives k bit positions from one 64-bit hash.

ClickhousePerformanceInternalsIndexesBloom filter

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ClickHouse Runs Regular Expressions Four Different Ways

Oct 22, 2026 35 min read Jay Hubbert

ClickHouse analyses a regexp before running it, and often never runs RE2 at all.

ClickhouseInternalsRegexpPerformanceJit

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ClickHouse Shares a CPU Budget Between Queries with Fair CPU Slots

Oct 22, 2026 20 min read Jay Hubbert

ClickHouse shares a global CPU-slot budget between queries with a max-min-fair scheduler, where each query’s slot ceiling is mutable and raised only when the pipeline finds real …

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ClickHouse's Hash Join Stores the Right Table as 64-bit Row Words

Oct 22, 2026 19 min read Jay Hubbert

The ClickHouse hash join keeps the right table as blocks and stores one tagged 64-bit row word per hash-table cell.

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ClickHouse's Merge Join Walks Two Sorted Streams and Skips Whole Runs

Oct 22, 2026 19 min read Jay Hubbert

ClickHouse’s merge join advances two sorted cursors in lockstep and uses a fused compare-and-run-search to skip whole equal-key runs.

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