---
title: 'ClickHouse Meetup in Amsterdam on November 15, 2018'
image: 'https://blog-images.clickhouse.com/en/2018/clickhouse-meetup-in-amsterdam-on-november-15-2018/main.jpg'
date: '2018-11-22'
tags: ['meetup', 'Amsterdam', 'Netherlands', 'events']
---

20th ClickHouse Meetup took place in Amsterdam, which appeared to be a convenient location for people from all over Europe to join the event, including Austria, Czech Republic and Germany. We were also glad to see people from many local companies including Booking.com, Crobox, Marktplaats (eBay), MessageBird and others.

Aleksandar Aleksandrov and Felix Mattrat, data engineers from MessageBird, show how they use ClickHouse to analyze process of delivery of SMS and other kinds of messages:
![Aleksandar Aleksandrov and Felix Mattrat](https://blog-images.clickhouse.com/en/2018/clickhouse-meetup-in-amsterdam-on-november-15-2018/1.jpg)

Nikolay Kochetov from ClickHouse team demonstrates recent features related to string processing optimization:
![Nikolay Kochetov from ClickHouse team](https://blog-images.clickhouse.com/en/2018/clickhouse-meetup-in-amsterdam-on-november-15-2018/2.jpg)

Konstantin Ignatov from Qrator Labs shares his experience in using ClickHouse as time-series database:
![Konstantin Ignatov from Qrator Labs](https://blog-images.clickhouse.com/en/2018/clickhouse-meetup-in-amsterdam-on-november-15-2018/3.jpg)

Aurimas Jacikevicius from Altinity demonstrates benchmark of ClickHouse against TimescaleDB and InfluxDB under time-series workload:
![Aurimas Jacikevicius from Altinity](https://blog-images.clickhouse.com/en/2018/clickhouse-meetup-in-amsterdam-on-november-15-2018/4.jpg)

Roy Brondgeest from Crobox showcases [ClickHouse Scala reactive client](https://github.com/crobox/clickhouse-scala-client) and it's bundled [DSL for query building](https://github.com/crobox/clickhouse-scala-client/wiki):
![Roy Brondgeest from Crobox](https://blog-images.clickhouse.com/en/2018/clickhouse-meetup-in-amsterdam-on-november-15-2018/5.jpg)

Alexey Milovidov from Yandex closes the meetup with talk about performance analysis of ClickHouse queries:
![Alexey Milovidov from Yandex](https://blog-images.clickhouse.com/en/2018/clickhouse-meetup-in-amsterdam-on-november-15-2018/6.jpg)