Nirvana × Altinity BYOC partnership

Managed service for ClickHouse with database x workload colocation for always hot data

Nirvana Labs (Nirvana), a high performance storage cloud, is announcing a strategic partnership between Nirvana and Altinity, the largest independent managed service provider for ClickHouse. The integration is now generally available as a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment on Altinity.Cloud.

Altinity now offers Nirvana as a BYOC option on its Altinity.Cloud, a managed service for ClickHouse. Customers hold a Nirvana account instead of a hyperscaler account. Altinity manages everything from the database down to Kubernetes, while Nirvana runs the cloud infrastructure below it, including compute, block storage, and networking. The database is co-located with the customer's workload on the same private network, on infrastructure purpose-built for analytical workloads where the database stays hot for real-time applications.

The BYOC integration: Always hot data BYOC stands for Bring Your Own Cloud. Altinity already offers BYOC on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Hetzner. The Nirvana integration adds a new BYOC option. BYOC on hyperscalers come with limits of general-purpose cloud storage (capped IOPS, capped throughput, cross-VPC egress). Altinity.Cloud BYOC on Nirvana frees users from these hyperscaler constraints.

How it works

In the BYOC model, Altinity deploys Nirvana Kubernetes Service (NKS) in Nirvana infrastructure. Altinity deploys its managed service for ClickHouse stack directly onto NKS. From the customer's side, the cluster looks and behaves like any other Altinity-managed ClickHouse deployment, with the operator, monitoring, upgrades, schema migrations, query optimization, and on-call all owned by Altinity. The difference is what's underneath: Nirvana's block storage, ABS, is purpose-built for the most demanding real-time workloads, including sequential analytical reads and writes with the database lives on the same rack as the customer's workload, offering:

Database + workload colocation. Workload and database on the same Nirvana rack to keep your data hot. Microsecond round trips. $0 internal egress.

High-performance storage with proven performance. Backed by Nirvana's Accelerated Block Storage (ABS), with 20K baseline IOPS included, no per-IOP surcharges, and ~2 GB/s sustained per-VM sequential throughput. Most hyperscalers, by default, give you 3,000 IOPS. ClickBench Hardware on identical r7a.16xlarge instances with cold reads shows a ~10× median speedup vs. AWS gp3 across the 43-query suite.

io2-class performance at a fraction of the cost. ABS within 1.5× of AWS io2 on ~77% of queries at roughly 1/8 the cost. On the actual joint stack (SSB at SF=500, 3B rows from disk, working set exceeds RAM): 34 ms warm on the most selective query, ~70M rows/sec sustained on full scans.

"Altinity BYOC frees users to optimize ClickHouse performance and cost using innovative infrastructure combinations outside of traditional clouds. Nirvana's high-throughput storage, fast networking, and workload collocation define a new sweet spot for price/performance of real-time analytics. We're delighted to make these capabilities available to users." Robert Hodges, CEO, Altinity

"We built Nirvana for the workloads where the storage substrate is the ceiling. Altinity is the team that has been running into that ceiling on their customers' behalf for almost a decade. Putting the two together is the cleanest architectural fit we have seen, and the production-grade benchmarks make the case on their own." Dan Burke, CEO, Nirvana Labs.

Target users are teams building apps whose hot path waits on storage: Web3 indexers, real-time bidders, fintech risk and backtesting, observability platforms, customer-facing SaaS analytics. If the loop between an event landing and a decision going out defines your product, this is built for you.

The integration is generally available today. Customers can provision BYOC on Nirvana through Altinity.Cloud, with the same configuration controls offered for all supported clouds.

POCs in progress

A handful of pilot customers have been running production workloads on the joint stack ahead of GA. Case studies and demos coming in the next few weeks. If you want to be in the next wave of real-time analytics, talk to us.

Getting started

ClickBench Hardware comparison of Nirvana ABS vs AWS EBS gp3 and io2: https://nirvanalabs.io/benchmark-results/storage

Reproduction repository on GitHub: https://github.com/nirvana-labs-examples

Trial on Altinity.Cloud: http://altinity.cloud/

Talk to Altinity sales: https://altinity.com/contact/

Talk to Nirvana sales: https://nirvanalabs.io/contact

About Nirvana Labs

Nirvana Labs is a high-performance storage cloud purpose built for Web3, AI and databases. Accelerated block storage (ABS) offers 20K baseline IOPS included, no over provisioning. Managed Kubernetes (NKS) with Karpenter auto-scaling, high clock-speed compute and private networking. Backed by Jump Trading, Crucible, etc with 50+ customers live in production today.