TPC-H (1999) | ClickHouse Docs

A popular benchmark which models the internal data warehouse of a wholesale supplier. The data is stored into a 3rd normal form representation, requiring lots of joins at query runtime. Despite its age and its unrealistic assumption that the data is uniformly and independently distributed, TPC-H remains the most popular OLAP benchmark to date.

References

TPC-H
New TPC Benchmarks for Decision Support and Web Commerce (Poess et. al., 2000)
TPC-H Analyzed: Hidden Messages and Lessons Learned from an Influential Benchmark (Boncz et. al.), 2013
Quantifying TPC-H Choke Points and Their Optimizations (Dresseler et. al.), 2020

Data Generation and Import

First, checkout the TPC-H repository and compile the data generator:

git clone https://github.com/gregrahn/tpch-kit.git
cd tpch-kit/dbgen
make

Then, generate the data. Parameter -s specifies the scale factor. For example, with -s 100, 600 million rows are generated for table ‘lineitem’.

./dbgen -s 100

To speed things up, you can use “chunked” generation (in multiple processes):

for i in $(seq 1 8); do
    ./dbgen -s 100 -C 8 -S $i &
done
wait

Detailed table sizes with scale factor 100:

Table	size (in rows)	size (compressed in ClickHouse)
nation	25	2 kB
region	5	1 kB
part	20.000.000	895 MB
supplier	1.000.000	75 MB
partsupp	80.000.000	4.37 GB
customer	15.000.000	1.19 GB
orders	150.000.000	6.15 GB
lineitem	600.000.000	26.69 GB

(Compressed sizes in ClickHouse are taken from system.tables.total_bytes and based on below table definitions.)

Now create tables in ClickHouse. The table definitions are available in init.sql in the ClickHouse repository.

The data can be imported as follows:

clickhouse-client --format_csv_delimiter '|' --query "INSERT INTO nation FORMAT CSV" < nation.tbl
clickhouse-client --format_csv_delimiter '|' --query "INSERT INTO region FORMAT CSV" < region.tbl
clickhouse-client --format_csv_delimiter '|' --query "INSERT INTO part FORMAT CSV" < part.tbl
clickhouse-client --format_csv_delimiter '|' --query "INSERT INTO supplier FORMAT CSV" < supplier.tbl
clickhouse-client --format_csv_delimiter '|' --query "INSERT INTO partsupp FORMAT CSV" < partsupp.tbl
clickhouse-client --format_csv_delimiter '|' --query "INSERT INTO customer FORMAT CSV" < customer.tbl
clickhouse-client --format_csv_delimiter '|' --query "INSERT INTO orders FORMAT CSV" < orders.tbl
clickhouse-client --format_csv_delimiter '|' --query "INSERT INTO lineitem FORMAT CSV" < lineitem.tbl

Note

Instead of using tpch-kit and generating the tables by yourself, you can alternatively import the data from a public S3 bucket. Make sure to create empty tables first using init.sql.

-- Scale factor 1
INSERT INTO nation SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/1/nation.tbl', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO region SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/1/region.tbl', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO part SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/1/part.tbl', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO supplier SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/1/supplier.tbl', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO partsupp SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/1/partsupp.tbl', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO customer SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/1/customer.tbl', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO orders SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/1/orders.tbl', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO lineitem SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/1/lineitem.tbl', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;

-- Scale factor 10
INSERT INTO nation SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/10/nation.tbl.zst', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO region SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/10/region.tbl.zst', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO part SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/10/part.tbl.zst', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO supplier SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/10/supplier.tbl.zst', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO partsupp SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/10/partsupp.tbl.zst', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO customer SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/10/customer.tbl.zst', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO orders SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/10/orders.tbl.zst', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO lineitem SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/10/lineitem.tbl.zst', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;

-- Scale factor 100
INSERT INTO nation SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/100/nation.tbl.gz', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO region SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/100/region.tbl.gz', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO part SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/100/part.tbl.gz', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO supplier SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/100/supplier.tbl.gz', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO partsupp SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/100/partsupp.tbl.gz', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO customer SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/100/customer.tbl.gz', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO orders SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/100/orders.tbl.gz', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;
INSERT INTO lineitem SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/h/100/lineitem.tbl.gz', NOSIGN, CSV) SETTINGS format_csv_delimiter = '|', input_format_defaults_for_omitted_fields = 1, input_format_csv_empty_as_default = 1;

Queries

The 22 TPC-H queries can be found here in the ClickHouse repository.

To get SQL standard compatible behavior and expected results, apply the settings from settings.json. See the README for known issues and notes on specific queries.

Correctness

The result of the queries agrees with the official results unless mentioned otherwise. To verify, generate a TPC-H database with scale factor = 1 (dbgen, see above) and compare with the expected results in tpch-kit.

Performance benchmark

ClickHouse tracks TPC-H query performance across every released version. You can explore run times for all 22 TPC-H queries (scale factor 40) on the ClickHouse versions benchmark page to see how performance has evolved over time.