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Laravel Eloquent driver for ClickHouse.

Compatibility

Package	Supported versions
PHP	8.2+
Laravel / `illuminate/database`	12.x, 13.x
ClickHouse client	`smi2/phpclickhouse` 1.6+

Compatibility is covered by automated checks (unit + live-ClickHouse integration tests) for:

Laravel 12 on PHP 8.2 (lowest supported dependencies), 8.3 and 8.4
Laravel 13 on PHP 8.3 and 8.4

See .github/workflows/compatibility.yml.

Installation

composer require timeleads/eloquent-clickhouse

Configuration

Add a ClickHouse connection to config/database.php:

'connections' => [
    'clickhouse' => [
        'driver' => 'clickhouse',
        'host' => env('CLICKHOUSE_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'port' => env('CLICKHOUSE_PORT', 8123),
        'database' => env('CLICKHOUSE_DATABASE', 'default'),
        'username' => env('CLICKHOUSE_USERNAME', 'default'),
        'password' => env('CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD', ''),
        'prefix' => '',
        'settings' => [
            // Server settings sent with every query, e.g.:
            // 'max_execution_time' => 60,
            // 'mutations_sync' => 1, // make update()/delete() wait for the mutation
        ],
        // Optional:
        // 'engine' => 'MergeTree',   // default table engine for migrations
        // 'timeout' => 30,           // query timeout, seconds (max_execution_time)
        // 'connect_timeout' => 5.0,  // connection timeout, seconds
    ],
],

Example .env values:

CLICKHOUSE_HOST=127.0.0.1
CLICKHOUSE_PORT=8123
CLICKHOUSE_DATABASE=default
CLICKHOUSE_USERNAME=default
CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD=

TLS

'clickhouse' => [
    // ...
    'port' => 8443,
    'https' => true,
    // 'sslCA' => '/path/to/ca.pem', // custom CA bundle ('ssl_ca' also accepted)
    // 'verify' => false,            // disable certificate verification (not recommended)
    // 'curl_options' => [CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => 0], // raw overrides, win over the defaults
],

With 'https' => true the server certificate is verified by default (the underlying smi2 client on its own disables verification). Note that the connector's initial ping() goes through an smi2 code path that never verifies certificates; all real queries do.

Usage

Query Builder

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

$rows = DB::connection('clickhouse')
    ->table('events')
    ->whereDate('created_at', now()->toDateString())
    ->get();

Updates and deletes

update() and delete() compile to ClickHouse mutations:

DB::connection('clickhouse')->table('events')->where('id', 1)->update(['name' => 'x']);
// ALTER TABLE "events" UPDATE "name" = 'x' WHERE "id" = 1

DB::connection('clickhouse')->table('events')->where('id', 1)->delete();
// ALTER TABLE "events" DELETE WHERE "id" = 1

DB::connection('clickhouse')->table('events')->delete(); // no WHERE
// TRUNCATE TABLE "events" — an unconditional delete truncates instead of mutating

Caveats inherent to ClickHouse:

Mutations require a MergeTree-family engine. Log-family and Memory tables accept inserts and truncate(), but reject update()/delete()-with-where.
Mutations are asynchronous by default: a read issued immediately after update()/delete() may see old data. Set 'settings' => ['mutations_sync' => 1] to make them synchronous.
The HTTP interface reports no affected-row count, so update(), delete(), increment() and decrement() always return 0, and updateOrInsert() returns false on its update branch (the write itself succeeds).
insertGetId() and upsert() throw: ClickHouse has no auto-increment, RETURNING or ON CONFLICT. Use explicit keys (e.g. UUIDs) and insert(); deduplicate with a ReplacingMergeTree engine where needed.

Migrations

Schema::connection('clickhouse')->create('events', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->engine('MergeTree');          // default: MergeTree (or the 'engine' config)
    $table->uuid('id');
    $table->string('name')->default('');
    $table->dateTime('created_at', 3);
    $table->primary(['created_at', 'id']); // becomes ORDER BY (sorting key)
});

The blueprint's primary() becomes the MergeTree ORDER BY sorting key; without one the table is created with ORDER BY tuple(). An engine string may carry its own clause: $table->engine('MergeTree ORDER BY (id)').
hasTable(), hasColumn(), getTables(), getColumns(), getViews(), dropAllTables() (and therefore migrate:fresh) work against system.tables / system.columns.
Column types map to ClickHouse-native ones (string → String, unsignedBigInteger → UInt64, dateTime($p) → DateTime64($p), boolean → Bool, uuid → UUID, enum → Enum8, ...). nullable() wraps the type in Nullable(...).
Unsupported concepts fail loudly with a RuntimeException instead of being silently skipped: auto-increment (id()/increments()), indexes, unique/foreign keys, time() columns, nullable columns inside the sorting key.

Array and Map values

PHP arrays compile to ClickHouse-native literals: lists become Array literals, associative arrays become Map construction calls — in inserts, wheres, updates and raw bindings alike:

DB::connection('clickhouse')->table('events')->insert([
    'id' => 1,
    'tags' => ['alpha', 'beta'],          // -> ['alpha', 'beta']
    'attrs' => ['region' => 'eu'],        // -> map('region', 'eu')
]);

DB::connection('clickhouse')->table('events')->where('tags', ['alpha', 'beta'])->get();

DB::connection('clickhouse')->select('SELECT arrayConcat(?, ?) AS merged', [['a'], ['b']]);

Raw statements

$rows = DB::connection('clickhouse')->select('SELECT * FROM events LIMIT 10');

DB::connection('clickhouse')->insert("INSERT INTO events (id, name) VALUES (1, 'test')");

DB::connection('clickhouse')->statement('OPTIMIZE TABLE events FINAL');

Notes

The package registers the clickhouse database driver through its service provider.
select() returns rows from smi2/phpclickhouse as associative arrays.
Values are inlined into SQL with ClickHouse-safe escaping (the HTTP interface has no server-side prepared statements).
Transactions are no-op methods because ClickHouse does not provide transactional behavior like traditional OLTP databases.

Development

A Docker test stack (PHP + live ClickHouse) is included:

make up               # start ClickHouse + PHP containers
make test             # unit tests
make test-integration # integration tests against the live ClickHouse
make test-all         # both

Run compatibility checks locally:

composer update
composer test

To verify the lowest supported Laravel 12 dependency set:

composer update --prefer-lowest
composer test

License

MIT

timeleads / eloquent-clickhouse

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