Oxygen vs. ClickHouse
Oxygen is a full agentic analytics platform. ClickHouse is a high-performance real-time OLAP database.
Overview
ClickHouse is a column-oriented OLAP DBMS designed for fast analytical queries, often for real-time and high concurrency workloads. Oxygen is a full-stack system that includes a lakehouse plus ETL/orchestration, an ontology/semantic layer, agents, automations, and apps.
Where Oxygen Wins
Beyond the database
ClickHouse is a database. Oxygen is the platform around the database problem: semantic modeling, agent workflows, automations, and user-facing apps.
Decision/action loop
Oxygen is built to turn analysis into workflows and outcomes (automations, apps) -- not only query speed.
Ontology-first semantic layer
Oxygen Ontology provides the data modeling layer that gives agents context and meaning -- something a raw OLAP engine simply does not offer.
Full-stack cohesion
Lakehouse + ETL/orchestration + semantic modeling + agents + automations + apps -- all in one platform, not just a query engine.
Where ClickHouse Is a Better Fit
Pure real-time OLAP performance
You have a clear real-time analytics OLAP workload and primarily need raw performance and cost efficiency for analytical queries.
Observability and telemetry
Observability, telemetry, and event analytics where ClickHouse is commonly used as the dedicated query engine.
Common Co-existence Pattern
Use ClickHouse as the high-performance execution engine for low-latency analytical queries. Oxygen connects to ClickHouse as a data source, builds the ontology/semantic layer on top, and provides the agentic workspace where teams build agent workflows, automations, and operational apps powered by ClickHouse's speed.
Need more than fast queries? Oxygen turns analytical speed into operational outcomes.
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