When Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones were in the Thriller era, the question was never if they could deliver.
It was how big the next hit would be.
Hit after hit.
Relentless execution.
A duo operating at the peak of their craft.
No backstage drama.
Just production results.
That’s the phase Quantrail and BitRefinery are in today.
Strong results in production.
Real customer wins.
And momentum that’s only accelerating.
The Reality of Modern Analytics
Companies are under constant pressure to make faster, better decisions.
They need:
- Real-time analytics
- Sub-second dashboards
- Predictable performance
- Predictable cost
ClickHouse® has become a leading engine for high-performance analytical workloads – capable of processing massive volumes of data with low latency and strong compression.
But adopting ClickHouse® alone is not a guarantee of success.
Technology Alone Is Not Enough
Powerful technology does not guarantee successful analytics operations.
Many teams deploy ClickHouse® and still struggle with:
- Slow queries
- Instability under load
- Complex ingestion pipelines
- Rising infrastructure costs
Most analytics failures are not caused by weak engines.
They are caused by weak execution.
ClickHouse® can move fast.
But fast in the wrong direction is still wrong.
The Duo: BitRefinery and Quantrail
BitRefinery
BitRefinery delivers high-performance bare-metal and hybrid infrastructure that removes virtualization overhead and unpredictable shared tenancy, providing:
- Dedicated hardware
- Predictable compute performance
- No egress fees and cost-efficient pricing
- High-throughput networking and storage
This foundation allows analytics engines to use full hardware capacity and scaling without unexpected slowdowns or shared cloud bottlenecks.
BitRefinery owns the infrastructure backbone.
Quantrail
Quantrail builds on that foundation with implementation expertise and operational excellence.
Quantrail’s services include:
- ClickHouse® architecture design and deployment
- Ingestion and transformation pipelines
- 24/7 monitoring and automation
- Performance tuning and cost optimization
- Migrations and upgrade management
- Flexible deployment (cloud, on-prem, hybrid)
Quantrail owns how ClickHouse® is implemented, managed, and experienced.
Together:
BitRefinery supplies the muscle.
Quantrail supplies the brain.
What Getting ClickHouse® Right Means
Getting ClickHouse® right is not just installation. It means:
- Designing table engines and schemas for your workload
- Defining partitioning and sorting keys to minimize scans
- Sizing infrastructure to actual usage, not guesswork
- Building resilient ingestion and transformation pipelines
- Implementing robust monitoring, alerting, and operations
This is engineering discipline, not guesswork.
In analytics, you either design the system – or the system designs your on-call schedule.
Success Story: Hive + Elasticsearch → ClickHouse®
Context
A customer had a large Hive and Elasticsearch stack:
- ~50-node cluster
- High ongoing cost
- Slow and inconsistent query performance
What Changed
Quantrail led a full ClickHouse® implementation on BitRefinery infrastructure:
- Re-architected schemas and data models
- Built an ingestion pipeline tested at 20x peak load
- Developed 50+ aggregation and report pipelines with Airflow
- Right-sized infrastructure to workload patterns
Outcome
- 6-node ClickHouse® cluster
- 2–4x faster queries
- ~30% of previous cost
Smaller cluster.
Faster queries.
Lower cost.
Turns out, less really is more.
Built for What’s Next
BitRefinery provides the infrastructure backbone.
Quantrail turns it into a production-grade analytics platform.
Together, they are building toward a broader vision of a fully managed, high-performance analytics ecosystem – where infrastructure and implementation reinforce each other to deliver real business results.
Analytics shouldn’t be exciting.
It should be boring – in the best possible way.
If you are evaluating ClickHouse®, migrating from legacy analytics systems, or struggling to get consistent performance from your current deployment, talk to us.
Great technology deserves great execution.
Disclaimer
ClickHouse® is a registered trademark of ClickHouse, Inc.
BitRefinery and Quantrail are independent companies and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ClickHouse, Inc.