Manveer Chawla

@manveerc.bsky.social

Building Zenith | Alum Confluent, Dropbox and Facebook

#ClickHouse JOINs in 2026: 6 algorithms. Cost-based reordering. Parallel hash by default. Runtime bloom filters. Correlated subqueries decorrelated. I audited 50+ PRs from 2022 to 2026. The "avoid JOINs in ClickHouse" advice is 3 years out of date. dataanalyticsguide.substack.com/p/clickhouse...

Are ClickHouse JOINs Slow? A 2026 PR-by-PR Analysis

TL;DR The narrative that “ClickHouse can’t do JOINs” is outdated by four years and 50+ merged PRs.

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