Arc vs The Field
We benchmarked Arc against every major analytical database using ClickBench.
99.9M rows, 43 queries, true cold runs. Here are the numbers.
Get Started with Arc →Arc vs ClickHouse
Arc matches or beats ClickHouse on queries, with 2.5x faster ingestion and portable Parquet storage.
Arc vs TimescaleDB
4.6x faster on combined ClickBench score, 9.6x faster on ingestion. No PostgreSQL extension overhead.
Arc vs InfluxDB
5x faster than InfluxDB 3 Core on ingestion. Standard SQL. Telegraf drop-in compatible.
Arc vs Elasticsearch
45x faster log ingestion, 6–21x faster analytical queries. Columnar analytics vs an inverted index.
Methodology
All ClickBench results are publicly verifiable at benchmark.clickhouse.com. Arc runs true cold runs: the service is restarted and the OS page cache is dropped before every query. Ingestion benchmarks use Arc's sustained ingestion harness at github.com/Basekick-Labs/arc. All numbers are reproducible. Challenge us on Discord or open an issue on GitHub.
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