Powering the next generation of electric cars: NOVO Energy

NOVO Energy, a joint venture between Northvolt and Volvo Cars, discovered ClickHouse at AWS Summit Stockholm in 2023. They were attracted by its speed, scalability, and flexibility. The company's software engineering team uses ClickHouse to democratize access to research data, enabling efficient analysis and comparison across different experiments. Key requirements for the database/store component included ownership and control of stored data, reasonable query performance, low maintenance, and good language support. After evaluating alternatives like TimescaleDB and AWS S3 with Amazon Redshift, NOVO Energy chose ClickHouse Cloud on AWS due to its managed solution offering. The company is currently monitoring performance as the volume of tests and test records grows over time. They also use ClickHouse for log storage from their services.