ObsessionDB — Fully Managed Hosting for ClickHouse Software

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MANAGED CLICKHOUSE® · FAST AT SCALE

Scan terabytes in milliseconds, without the infra bill.

Managed ClickHouse® with always-hot data and ridiculous value for money. Built for companies serving real-time data at scale.

  • dYdX
  • Range
  • Blockworks
  • Osmosis
  • Numia
  • Dune
  • ZIGChain
  • Artemis
  • Binary Builders

THE TRADE NOBODY ADMITS TO

ClickHouse® is fast — until your bill scales faster than your queries.

On other managed ClickHouse® solutions, costs balloon as data grows.

Same bad trade: pay much more, just to keep query times where they were a year ago.

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Measured on real customer workloads. As data volume grows along a log scale, ObsessionDB's p99 stays flat while $/query falls — competitors degrade on both.

HOW IT WORKS

A cache mesh that keeps your hot data hot.

CLIENTDRIVER · SQLSQLOBSESSIONDBCACHE MESHNODE 1NVMe · HOTNODE 2NVMe · HOTNODE NNVMe · HOTULTRA-FAST QUERY LAYER · 100% CACHE HITPERSIST →S3 · DURABLEWRITE-ONLY · NOT IN QUERY PATHCLIENTDRIVER · SQLSQLOBSESSIONDBCACHE MESHNODE 1NVMe · HOTNODE 2NVMe · HOTNODE NNVMe · HOTULTRA-FAST QUERY LAYER · 100% CACHE HITPERSIST →S3 · DURABLEWRITE-ONLY · NOT IN QUERY PATH

queries never hit S3 · writes persist asynchronously

01

Mesh is the query layer.

Reads loop between client and nodes. They never leave the cache.

02

S3 is durability only.

Your data is safe in object storage — but it is not in the query path.

03

No round-trip to object storage.

Unlike setups where every query dips down to S3 and back up again.

BUILT FOR AGENTS

An engine agents can hammer.

Agentic workloads don't query like humans — they probe relentlessly, in parallel, across everything. ObsessionDB is built for exactly that.

01

Agents get their own compute

Compute–compute separation means an agent runs on isolated, read-only compute over the same data, so it can't slow your production traffic.

02

Always-hot, every query

Agents loop through hundreds of probes. Each one hits a ~100% cache, so the 500th query stays as fast as the first.

03

Every agent action is on the record

Autonomous should not mean unaccountable. Every query an agent runs is logged in full, so you can replay exactly what it read — down to the column — with no black box reaching into production.

04

No per-query tax

An agent asks 100× more questions to find the right one. You pay for compute hours, not per query. Curiosity isn't metered.

05

Open agent skills

Agents need precise tools, not a SQL box. CHKit gives them structured commands to describe, validate, and run — the skills an agent reaches for a hundred times a loop.

06

Agents operate the database, not just query it

Agents do not only read — they ship. CHKit gives them typed commands to describe, validate, test, and deploy schema and pipelines as code: infrastructure an agent can drive, in CI, with a diff you can review.

EARLY ACCESS

A sandbox per agent

Give each agent run its own branch of production data — isolated compute over the same S3. Let it experiment for real, then throw the branch away.

CONNECT TO OBSESSIONDB

Point Claude, Cursor, Codex, and any MCP client straight at your databases over MCP.

ObsessionDB connects over MCP to Claude, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Zed, and any other MCP client.

IN PRODUCTION TODAY

No performance lost at 500 QPS, sub-400 ms p99 on 18 TB, and 20–40% lower cost than other managed solutions.

ENTERPRISE

Enterprise-ready from day one.

The questions a serious team asks before it moves a production database: how hard is getting in, what happens when something breaks, and who answers at 3am. Here are the receipts.

A migration team, not a migration guide

Dedicated migration engineers move you onto ObsessionDB with proven tooling and a real project plan. We benchmark your workload, shadow production traffic to prove it runs in parallel, and cut over only when the numbers hold.

Enterprise SLAs and uptime commitments

A real uptime commitment backed by service credits, not a status page and good intentions. SLAs are written into the contract, with monthly reports on uptime and query volume.

Built to survive failure

Your data lives in S3, so a failed compute node is replaced in seconds with nothing lost. Point-in-time recovery rolls you back to any moment, so an accidental drop is a quick cleanup, not an incident.

Single sign-on and access control

Log in through your own identity provider with SSO. Scope access with roles down to the table and column, and every query is logged, so you always know exactly who ran what.

Private networking and dedicated compute

Connect over private networking, never the public internet. Your workload runs on isolated, dedicated compute with no noisy neighbors, and data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

24/7 on-call

When production breaks at 3am, a human who runs ClickHouse® at scale answers. Round-the-clock on-call, a shared Slack channel, and monthly performance reviews.

PRICING · CALCULATOR

See what you'd pay.

Confident enough to let you compute your bill before you talk to us. Compare your current managed ClickHouse® spend, one-to-one.

Compressed data10 TB

100 GB200 TB

Other managed ClickHouse®

$7,162/mo

43%lower than your current
managed bill

Free developer tier

Spin up a dev instance to kick the tires.

CUSTOMERS

ECONOMICS → NEW SURFACE

ObsessionDB’s economics opened up product ideas we’d written off as too expensive or too slow. We stopped asking “can we afford this query?” and started asking “what should we build next?”

Co-founder

, Numia

Case study

CRITICALITY

We screen 90+ chains in real time with sub-400ms p99. Our risk product literally couldn’t exist on our previous stack.

Engineering

, Range

COST BEATS INCUMBENT

We onboard new customers onto ObsessionDB at 40% lower cost than our previous ClickHouse® setup, with better p99. The reseller math just works.

Platform

, Binary Builders