Real-time analytics in 2026: Lakehouse//RT vs ClickHouse, Druid and Pinot
Databricks Lakehouse//RT runs real-time queries directly on Delta and Iceberg at sub-100ms and 12,000 QPS. We compare it with ClickHouse, Apache Druid and Apache Pinot on latency, concurrency, cost and ops burden.
Manu Shukla