# chDB

6 Hacker News commenters recommended chDB and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Pandas-compatible engine built on ClickHouse that people use for fast analytics on large data and files.

## Why people recommend it

- Pandas-compatible API with fast ClickHouse performance (4 comments): "exactly how I envisioned a faster pandas could be without sacrificing its ergonomics" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997699)) "It support 100% pandas compatible with super OLAP power based on Clickhouse." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487334)) "chdb's DatStore is a pretty neat pandas replacement too" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351757))
- Fast S3 and JSON querying (2 comments): "I'd just use clickhouse-local / chdb / duckdb to query json files" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47541738)) "even chdb inmemory magic has better S3 consumer than Redshift" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684013))

## What people warn about

- Lacks proper Windows support (1 comments): "I'd love to see chDB to get proper windows support" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548621))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [DuckDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/duckdb.md): 390 recommend
- [ClickHouse](https://hackerapproved.com/p/clickhouse.md): 124 recommend
- [Trino](https://hackerapproved.com/p/trino.md): 9 recommend
- [Exasol](https://hackerapproved.com/p/exasol.md): 8 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "chDB", https://hackerapproved.com/p/chdb/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).