This year's American episode of Percona Live took place in Austin, TX, a waterfront location that welcomed open source database experts amidst hot weather. The ClickHouse community is growing rapidly and has become a popular topic for talks and comparisons. Recent releases have improved its performance, with Alexey Milovidov from Yandex showcasing these enhancements. Altinity provided an entry-level tutorial on ClickHouse, while Ruoxi Sun from PingCAP introduced TiFlash, a column-oriented add-on to TiDB based on the ClickHouse source code. Jervin Real and Francisco Bordenave from Percona discussed moving data around MySQL-compatible storage solutions, highlighting ClickHouse's capabilities in this area. The event also featured talks on modern options for time-series storage, with Evgeny Potapov confirming ClickHouse as a leader in this field. The diverse audience from the US and other countries enjoyed high-quality content, including a tutorial by Alexander Zaitsev and Robert Hodges from Altinity.