CollapsingMergeTree vs ReplacingMergeTree

CollapsingMergeTree vs ReplacingMergeTree.

CollapsingMergeTree vs ReplacingMergeTree

ReplacingMergeTreeCollapsingMergeTree
+ very easy to use (always replace)- more complex (accounting-alike, put ‘rollback’ records to fix something)
+ you don’t need to store the previous state of the row- you need to the store (somewhere) the previous state of the row, OR extract it from the table itself (point queries is not nice for ClickHouse)
- no deletes+ support deletes
- w/o FINAL - you can can always see duplicates, you need always to ‘pay’ FINAL performance penalty+ properly crafted query can give correct results without final (i.e. sum(amount * sign) will be correct, no matter of you have duplicated or not)
- only uniq()-alike things can be calculated in materialied views+ you can do basic counts & sums in materialized views