--- collection: data-engineering collection_name: Data & Analytics Engineering week_start: 2026-05-11 title: ClickHouse leads the narrative with five real-world case studies, while Dagster and dbt clean up DX release_count: 15 generated: 2026-07-11 canonical: https://releases.sh/collections/data-engineering/digest/2026-05-11 --- # ClickHouse leads the narrative with five real-world case studies, while Dagster and dbt clean up DX ClickHouse published five customer stories this week spanning threat detection, quick commerce, observability, and billing, and Dagster shipped two releases with significant quality-of-life improvements for asset definitions and SQLite backends. ### ClickHouse tells the story of the week The week belongs to ClickHouse, which published five detailed customer case studies that together paint a compelling picture of how the platform is being used in production. [Harvey’s proactive threat detection setup](/release/rel_Pe9wftwgBFQ9beQ-9dT_6-one-step-ahead-how-harvey-uses-clickhouse-for-proactive-threat-detection) shows how the legal AI platform uses ClickHouse to power real-time security monitoring, while [Rapid Delivery Analytics](/release/rel_wfTW05z7ZQuyDZQlGbwj8-how-rapid-delivery-analytics-tracks-real-time-cpg-performance-with-clickhouse) demonstrates the platform’s ability to handle the high-cardinality, high-velocity data of quick-commerce CPG tracking. [Temporal’s observability overhaul](/release/rel_V-Dru7dEoWnWUlQ2JSfwg-building-chronicle-how-temporal-supercharged-their-observability-with-clickhouse) covers how they built Chronicle, their internal telemetry system, on top of ClickHouse, and [Sierra’s observability-to-analytics bridge](/release/rel_WhaO845z7B3ajlPoQBSY4-how-sierra-uses-clickhouse-to-bridge-observability-and-analytics) touches on the same theme from a different angle — the freedom from cardinality constraints. The [beehiiv migration story](/release/rel_5w15lXDyq9_iw9H_wdfyK-data-hive-the-story-of-beehiiv-s-journey-from-postgres-to-clickhouse) rounds out the set with a classic Postgres-to-ClickHouse journey for a newsletter platform processing billions of emails monthly. On the technical side, the [Join table engine deep-dive](/release/rel_UAHfgjx7r9ypzeG1FybfU-clickhouse-cloud-fast-updatable-lookups-with-the-join-table-engine) explains how to use ClickHouse Cloud’s join engine for fast, updatable in-memory lookups with automatic upserts — a practical piece for anyone doing dimensional modeling. The [ClickStack SQL Charting and Alerting post](/release/rel_DixURNwU5i-NEY7Ydeuo8-clickstack-sql-charting-and-alerting) is a shorter, tool-specific piece for those already running ClickHouse observability setups. ### Dagster improves the definition experience Dagster shipped two releases this week, and the cumulative effect is a noticeably smoother authoring experience. The [1.13.4 release](/release/rel_u5TfxC2uhDyiXlZ36aulh-1-13-4-core-0-29-4-libraries) added support for `typing.Mapping` and `typing.Sequence` annotations on op and asset inputs, a `path_prefix` parameter for the GraphQL client behind non-root path deployments, and a `storage_kind` field on `TableMetadataSet` to make it explicit which warehouse backs a table. The bigger story is `define_asset_job` now validating owner strings at definition time — clearer error messages, less debugging. The [1.13.5 release](/release/rel_kaOvNkOew69exELV6pCP5-1-13-5-core-0-29-5-libraries) adds kinds tags for Alteryx, Boomi, and SAP, and raises the SQLite `busy_timeout` from 5s to 30s on both `SqliteEventLogStorage` and `ConsolidatedSqliteEventLogStorage` — a small change that makes a big difference for anyone running `$DAGSTER_HOME` on a slow or network-backed filesystem. ### dbt tightens its adapter compatibility dbt-core shipped three releases this week, all of them reactive to the same upstream issue. The [1.12.0 beta 1](/release/rel_HkghLl5f-QopD8Wi-5fA4-dbt-core-v1-12-0b1) is the most interesting: it introduces support for partial parsing of function nodes, adds `UnparsedMetricV2` for new-style YAML semantic layer metrics, and allows function arguments with default values — all signs of the semantic layer maturing toward a more declarative configuration model. The [1.11.10](/release/rel_PIevpPS1NLIxTfAEWVgnw-dbt-core-v1-11-10) and [1.10.21](/release/rel_PpFnLI2o3xiY0JfH3FgZf-dbt-core-v1-10-21) releases are almost entirely about capping `dbt-adapters` to <1.24 to avoid a `KeyError` caused by the JS UDF macro change in adapters 1.24.0. If you’re on an older dbt-core line, patch up. ### Tinybird signals a pricing model shift [Tinybird previewed upcoming Developer plan changes](/release/rel_Jo41vAGj47pn73sE_PIQp-upcoming-developer-plan-changes-cli-migration-to-forward-and-vector-search-deep) that replace QPS overages and active minutes with vCPU-based billing, decouple QPS from billing entirely, and introduce a new unlimited cloud pricing tier by the end of the year. The CLI is also migrating to the Forward client. Worth a read if you’re on a shared-infrastructure plan and want to know what’s coming. ## Releases covered ### ClickHouse - [One step ahead: How Harvey uses ClickHouse for proactive threat detection](https://releases.sh/release/rel_Pe9wftwgBFQ9beQ-9dT_6-one-step-ahead-how-harvey-uses-clickhouse-for-proactive-threat-detection) - [How Rapid Delivery Analytics tracks real-time CPG performance with ClickHouse Cloud](https://releases.sh/release/rel_wfTW05z7ZQuyDZQlGbwj8-how-rapid-delivery-analytics-tracks-real-time-cpg-performance-with-clickhouse) - [Building Chronicle: How Temporal supercharged their observability with ClickHouse](https://releases.sh/release/rel_V-Dru7dEoWnWUlQ2JSfwg-building-chronicle-how-temporal-supercharged-their-observability-with-clickhouse) - [How Sierra uses ClickHouse to bridge observability and analytics](https://releases.sh/release/rel_WhaO845z7B3ajlPoQBSY4-how-sierra-uses-clickhouse-to-bridge-observability-and-analytics) - [Data Hive: The story of beehiiv’s journey from Postgres to ClickHouse](https://releases.sh/release/rel_5w15lXDyq9_iw9H_wdfyK-data-hive-the-story-of-beehiiv-s-journey-from-postgres-to-clickhouse) - [ClickHouse Cloud: Fast, Updatable Lookups with the Join Table Engine](https://releases.sh/release/rel_UAHfgjx7r9ypzeG1FybfU-clickhouse-cloud-fast-updatable-lookups-with-the-join-table-engine) - [ClickStack SQL Charting and Alerting](https://releases.sh/release/rel_DixURNwU5i-NEY7Ydeuo8-clickstack-sql-charting-and-alerting) ### Dagster - [1.13.4 (core) / 0.29.4 (libraries)](https://releases.sh/release/rel_u5TfxC2uhDyiXlZ36aulh-1-13-4-core-0-29-4-libraries) - [1.13.5 (core) / 0.29.5 (libraries)](https://releases.sh/release/rel_kaOvNkOew69exELV6pCP5-1-13-5-core-0-29-5-libraries) ### dbt Labs - [dbt-core v1.12.0b1](https://releases.sh/release/rel_HkghLl5f-QopD8Wi-5fA4-dbt-core-v1-12-0b1) - [dbt-core v1.11.10](https://releases.sh/release/rel_PIevpPS1NLIxTfAEWVgnw-dbt-core-v1-11-10) - [dbt-core v1.10.21](https://releases.sh/release/rel_PpFnLI2o3xiY0JfH3FgZf-dbt-core-v1-10-21) ### Tinybird - [Upcoming Developer plan changes, CLI migration to Forward, and vector search deep dive](https://releases.sh/release/rel_Jo41vAGj47pn73sE_PIQp-upcoming-developer-plan-changes-cli-migration-to-forward-and-vector-search-deep)