--- title: How SmartNews powers real-time ad performance dashboards... description: SmartNews migrated from Redshift to ClickHouse to power real-time ad performance dashboards for thousands of advertisers. The new streaming architecture... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-smartnews-powers-real-time-ad-performance-dashboards-with-clickhouse-iaoyfwcxz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How SmartNews powers real-time ad performance dashboards with ClickHouse | daily.dev og:description: SmartNews migrated from Redshift to ClickHouse to power real-time ad performance dashboards for thousands of advertisers. The new streaming architecture... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-smartnews-powers-real-time-ad-performance-dashboards-with-clickhouse-iaoyfwcxz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iaOyFwcXZ.png og:image:alt: How SmartNews powers real-time ad performance dashboards with ClickHouse 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. # How SmartNews powers real-time ad performance dashboards with ClickHouse **[ClickHouse](https://daily.dev/sources/clickhouse)** · 8 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SmartNews migrated from Redshift to ClickHouse to power real-time ad performance dashboards for thousands of advertisers. The new streaming architecture reduced query times from hours to seconds, now handling 3 million queries and 60,000 inserts per hour with sub-100ms latency. The system uses materialized views for pre-aggregation, ReplicatedSummingMergeTree for efficient data compression, and HyperLogLog-based uniqCombined function for calculating unique ad reach at scale with ~2% error margin. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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