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ClickHouse is a SQL database, and you query your data by writing the same type of SELECT queries you’re already familiar with. For example:

SELECT *
FROM helloworld.my_first_table
ORDER BY timestamp

Notice the response comes back in a nice table format:

┌─user_id─┬─message────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────timestamp─┬──metric─┐
│     102 │ Insert a lot of rows per batch                     │ 2022-03-21 00:00:00 │ 1.41421 │
│     102 │ Sort your data based on your commonly-used queries │ 2022-03-22 00:00:00 │   2.718 │
│     101 │ Hello, ClickHouse!                                 │ 2022-03-22 14:04:09 │      -1 │
│     101 │ Granules are the smallest chunks of data read      │ 2022-03-22 14:04:14 │ 3.14159 │
└─────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴─────────┘

4 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.008 sec.

Add a FORMAT clause to specify one of the many supported output formats of ClickHouse:

SELECT *
FROM helloworld.my_first_table
ORDER BY timestamp
FORMAT TabSeparated

In the above query, the output is returned as tab-separated:

Query id: 3604df1c-acfd-4117-9c56-f86c69721121

102 Insert a lot of rows per batch      2022-03-21 00:00:00     1.41421
102 Sort your data based on your commonly-used queries  2022-03-22 00:00:00     2.718
101 Hello, ClickHouse!  2022-03-22 14:04:09     -1
101 Granules are the smallest chunks of data read       2022-03-22 14:04:14     3.14159

4 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.005 sec.

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