Comment by mfreed

Our experience is that Clickhouse and Timescale are designed for different workloads, and that Timescale is optimized for many of the time-series workloads people use in production:

- https://www.timescale.com/blog/what-is-clickhouse-how-does-i...

Sidenote: Timescale _does_ provide columnar storage. I don't believe that the blog author focused on this as part of insert benchmarks:

- Timescale columnar storage: https://www.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compression...

- Timescale query vectorization: https://www.timescale.com/blog/teaching-postgres-new-tricks-...