Cognitiv ClickHouse

Cognitiv — ML Feature Store for Real-Time Bidding

Cognitiv uses ClickHouse as an ML feature store for real-time bidding, computing and serving features within the 100ms bid window constraint.

Architecture diagram: Cognitiv — ML Feature Store for Real-Time Bidding

Scale

Massive datasets for ML feature computation within <100ms bid windows

Before

After

ClickHouse as ML feature store for programmatic advertising — features computed and served at bid latency

Key Insight

Feature stores for RTB are latency-critical — features must be computed and served within the bid window (<100ms). This shapes every architectural decision.

In a Snowflake Conversation

Feature stores for RTB are latency-critical — features must be computed and served within the bid window (<100ms). ClickHouse's read performance at this latency profile is what makes it viable.

My Read

Practitioner commentary coming soon.

ClickHouse feature store ML RTB latency

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