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Install clickhouse with Homebrew Cask

Column-oriented database management system. Version 26.8.6.5-lts via Homebrew Cask; verified 2026-09-18. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#clickhouse.

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macOS

Homebrew Caskverified · 100%
brew install --cask clickhouse

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overview

Package summary

Column-oriented database management system

Commands and aliases

  • clickhouse

history

Project history and usage

ClickHouse is a column-oriented analytical database created for fast aggregation over large, continuously arriving datasets. It began inside Yandex's web-analytics infrastructure, entered production in 2012, and became open source in 2016.

Project history

Alexey Milovidov began the work that became ClickHouse while developing web-analytics infrastructure at Yandex. The first repository commit dates to May 2009; the server and client appeared in 2012, and MergeTree-based storage subsequently became central to production use.

Yandex released ClickHouse as open source under the Apache 2.0 license on 15 June 2016. Development continued publicly with a large contributor community and regular releases, while ClickHouse Inc. later developed a commercial managed-cloud offering around the same database.

Adoption history

ClickHouse was first deployed internally for log processing in 2012. By 2014 it powered Yandex.Metrica and had spread to other internal teams; CERN was an early external deployment. Its adoption widened after the 2016 open-source release, particularly for observability, event analytics, data warehousing, and other high-volume analytical workloads.

How it is used

Operators use ClickHouse for real-time analytics, observability data, event streams, data warehouses, and large-scale reporting. The packaged executable can support client and local workflows, while server deployments use XML configuration and typically require deliberate storage, networking, authentication, and resource-limit configuration.

Why package nerds care

ClickHouse is notable to package enthusiasts because one distribution supplies server, client, and local analytical workflows, while its rapid release cadence and performance-oriented native binaries make versioning and platform packaging unusually visible. It is also a prominent example of infrastructure software moving from an internal web-analytics system to a broadly deployed open-source database.

Timeline

  • 2009: First commit in the codebase that became ClickHouse.
  • 2012: ClickHouse server and client entered production use for log processing.
  • 2014: ClickHouse powered Yandex.Metrica and spread to additional internal workloads.
  • 2016: Yandex released ClickHouse as open source under Apache 2.0.
  • 2026: ClickHouse marked ten years as an open-source project.

Related projects

  • ClickHouse Cloud is the vendor-managed service built around ClickHouse.
  • ClickHouse integrations commonly connect the database to ingestion, visualization, migration, and client-driver ecosystems.

Sources

  • Official ClickHouse documentation: https://clickhouse.com/docs
  • Official ClickHouse retrospective: https://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10
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  • source_facts.repo

security posture

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No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for clickhouse. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

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local files

Configuration and credential file locations

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Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
/etc/clickhouse-server/config.xml/etc/clickhouse-server/config.d/*.xml~/.clickhouse-client/config.xml

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix
/etc/clickhouse-server/users.xml/etc/clickhouse-server/users.d/*.xml

executables

Installed executables

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clickhousebinaryHomebrew cask binaryclickhouse

freshness

Version and freshness

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page generated2026-09-19
manager version26.8.6.5-lts
manager updated2026-09-18
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keycask:clickhouse
Version26.8.6.5-lts
Package managerHomebrew Cask
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/cask/clickhouse
Homepagehttps://clickhouse.com/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse
Upstream docshttps://clickhouse.com/
Source archivehttps://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/releases/download/v26.7.5.10-stable/clickhouse-macos-aarch64.zip
Last updated2026-09-18T15:49:00Z
Pulseupdated
SHA-256ddb3dfdeaa49aca32876c7e54ebc42317a32ea0f9618ff5f62df3c90a2443152
Download URLhttps://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/releases/download/v26.8.6.5-lts/clickhouse-macos-aarch64.zip
Bottlenot recorded
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

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Source database details

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Taphomebrew/cask
Full Tokenclickhouse
Names
  • ClickHouse
Artifacts
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Target
1
Deprecatedno
Disabledno

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Nix95%

clickhouse

nix profile install nixpkgs#clickhouse
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Clickhouse
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cl/clickhouse/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

clickhouse-client 18.16.1+ds-7.4build2

column-oriented database system (cli client)

https://clickhouse.yandex/

sudo apt install clickhouse-client
  • Section: universe/database
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: clickhouse
  • 11 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Clickhouse
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: clickhouse-client from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

clickhouse-common 18.16.1+ds-7.4build2

column-oriented database system (common files)

https://clickhouse.yandex/

sudo apt install clickhouse-common
  • Section: universe/database
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: clickhouse
  • 27 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Clickhouse
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: clickhouse-common from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

clickhouse-server 18.16.1+ds-7.4build2

column-oriented database system (server runner)

https://clickhouse.yandex/

sudo apt install clickhouse-server
  • Section: universe/database
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: clickhouse
  • 13 dependencies
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Clickhouse
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: clickhouse-server from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

clickhouse-tools 18.16.1+ds-7.4build2

column-oriented database system (tools)

https://clickhouse.yandex/

sudo apt install clickhouse-tools
  • Section: universe/database
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: clickhouse
  • 16 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Clickhouse
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: clickhouse-tools from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

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