--- title: Announcing General Availability of ClickHouse Full-text... description: ClickHouse Full-text Search is now generally available, bringing native inverted index support for fast token-based search across large text datasets. It... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-general-availability-of-clickhouse-full-text-search-wnpt02khc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Announcing General Availability of ClickHouse Full-text Search | daily.dev og:description: ClickHouse Full-text Search is now generally available, bringing native inverted index support for fast token-based search across large text datasets. It... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-general-availability-of-clickhouse-full-text-search-wnpt02khc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wNpt02khc.png og:image:alt: Announcing General Availability of ClickHouse Full-text Search og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Announcing General Availability of ClickHouse Full-text Search **[ClickHouse](https://daily.dev/sources/clickhouse)** · 11 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary ClickHouse Full-text Search is now generally available, bringing native inverted index support for fast token-based search across large text datasets. It delivers 7–10x faster cold query performance compared to traditional approaches, and up to 96% reduction in granules scanned versus linear scans. Unlike Bloom filter skip indexes, the inverted index is deterministic, supports multi-token search with no false positives, and scales better for large text corpora. It is purpose-built for analytics and observability workloads—such as log search—where fast filtering combines with aggregation over billions or trillions of rows. It does not implement relevance scoring (TF-IDF/BM25) and is not a replacement for dedicated search engines. Configuration is done via SQL with customizable tokenizers and preprocessors. Real-world users report query times dropping from 30–45 seconds to ~400 milliseconds. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Building high-performance full-text search for object storage](https://daily.dev/posts/building-high-performance-full-text-search-for-object-storage-l0orx1vdy) · ClickHouse · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Do you still need Elasticsearch for log analytics? ClickHouse says no.](https://daily.dev/posts/do-you-still-need-elasticsearch-for-log-analytics-clickhouse-says-no--akrdkxlk8) · ClickHouse · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Accelerate search queries with full-text search indexes on Databricks](https://daily.dev/posts/accelerate-search-queries-with-full-text-search-indexes-on-databricks-qva3uojdd) · databricks · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#clickhouse](https://daily.dev/tags/clickhouse), [#full-text-search](https://daily.dev/tags/full-text-search) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-general-availability-of-clickhouse-full-text-search-wnpt02khc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Announcing General Availability of ClickHouse Full-text Search","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-general-availability-of-clickhouse-full-text-search-wnpt02khc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-general-availability-of-clickhouse-full-text-search-wnpt02khc"},"datePublished":"2026-03-10T19:16:36.634Z","dateModified":"2026-03-10T19:17:53.686Z","description":"ClickHouse Full-text Search is now generally available, bringing native inverted index support for fast token-based search across large text datasets. 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