Powering self-driving vehicle analytics at Avride with ClickHouse Cloud

Avride, the autonomous vehicle and delivery robot company, replaced Apache Iceberg with ClickHouse Cloud as its core data infrastructure. The migration cut index lookup latency from 10–20 seconds to under 100ms on warm connections, and reduced ingestion latency from hours or days to seconds. Key drivers included Iceberg's optimistic concurrency model failing under parallel writes, costly data duplication at petabyte scale, and fragmented caching workarounds built by engineering teams. ClickHouse Cloud was chosen over self-hosting despite the team's deep ClickHouse expertise, citing operational simplicity, separation of storage and compute, and an accessible SQL console. Today ClickHouse powers indexing, metrics, fleet monitoring, C++ performance profiling, and executive dashboards across the entire company.