Education
If your storage bill is mostly meter, you paid the expensive way. Clouds price capacity cheap and meter IOPS on top: 60% of the bill at 20K IOPS, 84% at 80K, 91% on io2. Which workloads hit the meter, what it costs them, and whether yours should move.
Partnership
Nirvana is now a BYOC option on Altinity.Cloud. This is the architecture behind it: Altinity manages everything from the database down to Kubernetes, Nirvana operates NKS and the infrastructure beneath it, and the stack was benchmarked before it ever went GA. Here's the layer-by-layer breakdown.
Benchmark
Star Schema Benchmark: ClickHouse® on Nirvana × Altinity: 34 ms selective queries against a 3-billion-row table. ~70M rows/sec sustained on full scans from disk.
Announcement
Nirvana Labs (Nirvana), a high performance storage cloud, is announcing a strategic partnership between Nirvana and Altinity, the largest independent managed service provider for ClickHouse®. The integration is now generally available as a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment on Altinity.Cloud.