Ciklum partners with ClickHouse to speed enterprise migrations to real-time analytics

Enterprise migration firm Ciklum Group Ltd. has teamed up with database management company ClickHouse Inc. to expedite the transition to their open-source analytics database. This collaboration places Ciklum in the ClickHouse partner program's House Mates launch partners initiative. The primary goal is to assist companies seeking to implement AI agents and customer-facing dashboards that query live data, moving away from overnight batch reporting.

Ciklum's expertise lies in delivery work rather than software. Their team has created a set of ClickHouse accelerators that begin with a thorough assessment of workloads that would benefit most from migrating away from legacy data platforms. Once the assessment is complete, production deployment follows, gradually rolling out the solution throughout the business.

The engagements are designed to align with the customer's existing cloud accounts, continuous integration pipelines, and governance rules. The reusable code is delivered without a proprietary platform underneath. Both companies emphasize agentic AI as the driving force behind this partnership. ClickHouse's column-oriented database is designed for online analytical processing, with a focus on query speed under heavy concurrency.

Kevin Egan, ClickHouse's chief revenue officer, stated that enterprises are not only pursuing real-time insights but also striving to operationalize AI, from real-time agents to large-scale inference, all while keeping analytics costs under control. Ciklum's CEO, Raj Radhakrishnan, highlighted that every enterprise client is under pressure to implement AI faster without compromising data governance, and the ClickHouse partnership offers a "proven, low-risk path" to the scale needed for real-time analytics and AI workloads.

This year, ClickHouse has seen significant growth, with a $400 million Series D round led by Dragoneer Investment Group in January, bringing the company's valuation to an impressive $15 billion. Additionally, ClickHouse acquired Langfuse GmbH, a German startup specializing in open-source monitoring tools for large language model applications.