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How to Ingest Data from Kafka into ClickHouse

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Overview: This article walks through the process of sending data from a Kafka topic to a ClickHouse table. We’ll use the Wiki recent changes feed, which provides a stream of events that represent changes made to various Wikimedia properties. The steps include:

  1. How to setup Kafka on Ubuntu
  2. Ingest a stream of data into a Kakfa topic
  3. Create a ClickHouse table that subscribes to the topic

Why can't I see my data in a dictionary in ClickHouse Cloud?

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Dictionaries created in ClickHouse Cloud may experience inconsistency during the initial creation phase. This means that you may not see any data in the dictionary right after creation. However, after several retries, the creation query may land on different replicas, and data will be visible.