# ClickHouse
**Licence:** Apache-2.0 | **Language:** C++ | **Source:** https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse
## Role
Columnar OLAP database
## Why it's here
Aggregates billions of rows in milliseconds. The engine you reach for when queries on a row store stop finishing.
## Running it
Started by `docker compose up -d` on port 8123.
```bash
./fetch-sources.sh ./sources
tar xzf ./sources/ClickHouse.tar.gz -C ./sources
```