Trench is an open-source analytics infrastructure platform combining Kafka and ClickHouse for high-performance event tracking and analysis.
About Trench
A Y Combinator-backed analytics infrastructure solution that leverages Kafka and ClickHouse to provide enterprise-grade event tracking and analysis. It offers both self-hosted and cloud options, following industry standards like Segment's specification while ensuring GDPR compliance and high scalability.
Key Features
- Segment-compatible tracking API with Track, Identify, and Group events
- High-throughput event processing using Kafka (thousands of events/second)
- Real-time SQL and REST query capabilities via ClickHouse
- Single docker image deployment with all components included
- Configurable data export with throttled webhooks
- GDPR-compliant architecture
- Available in both self-hosted and cloud options