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ClickHouse Hashes Map Keys into Buckets So a One-Key Read Touches One Stream

Oct 24, 2026 12 min read Jay Hubbert

A Map column is an Array(Tuple(keys, values)) with offsets, and since 26.3 its serialization can hash the keys into buckets so m[‘k’] reads one substream.

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