Summary
The discussion on pre-aggregation in ClickHouse focuses on the use of AggregatingMergeTree versus ReplacingMergeTree. AggregatingMergeTree combined with materialized views provides fast aggregation for high-throughput data streams, while ReplacingMergeTree ensures idempotency. However, deduplication only occurs at merge time, creating uncertainty in the results.
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