Accelerating Spark with ClickHouse: Native Optimization Techniques and Performance Evaluation
This article presents a comprehensive technical overview of using ClickHouse as a native backend to accelerate Spark SQL execution, covering Spark performance bottlenecks, ClickHouse's CPU‑level optimizations, the design and implementation of the Spark‑Native integration, and detailed TPC‑DS benchmark results demonstrating up to 3.5× speedup.
