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The difference between rowstores (Scylla/Cassandra) and columnstores (Clickhouse) comes down to the physical layout of data with batch/vectorized processing and other techniques.

There will always be a 1-2 magnitude increase in performance regardless of the data. They also used the same number of rows, except with smaller cardinality in measurements which would make an insignificant speed difference.

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