# Google Cloud ClickHouse InstantML-hosted workspaces store run metadata and metrics in an InstantML-owned ClickHouse deployment on Google Cloud, while account records live in a separate control-plane Postgres database. Premium workspaces that want product data in their own infrastructure can use [customer-owned ClickHouse](/docs/guides/customer-owned-clickhouse.md) instead. ## Hosted topology | Source | Service | Storage | | --- | --- | --- | | Browser / dashboard | Control and data services | Control-plane Postgres (account records) + InstantML-owned ClickHouse (tenant data) | | Python SDK / uploader | Data service | InstantML-owned ClickHouse on Google Cloud | | Artifact upload/download paths | Data service | Private object-storage artifact buckets | The control service stores account, session, billing, API-key, and tenant-route records in Postgres. The data service stores projects, runs, metrics, console logs, attributes, artifacts, reports, imports, and usage snapshots for the authenticated workspace in its routed ClickHouse database. ## Tenant isolation Tenant databases are routed by workspace. Each tenant database owns its product tables and metric tables, and account records stay in the separate control-plane database. Hosted artifact bytes are not stored in ClickHouse. They live in private per-workspace object-storage buckets; ClickHouse stores only the artifact metadata: byte count, hash, MIME type, and an opaque storage reference. Downloads stream through the InstantML API rather than exposing bucket URLs. Usage accounting follows the same boundary. Metric-point counts are always bound to the resolved workspace. Exact warehouse-storage bytes are counted only when a ClickHouse database is scoped to a single workspace; shared cells and customer-owned deployments use workspace-local artifact and metadata accounting instead. Production and staging environments run as separate services with separate control-plane databases, so staging traffic cannot write production records. ## What this means for you - The SDK and dashboard APIs are the same regardless of which storage path your workspace routes to. - Run-list and chart endpoints stay bounded; raw metric history is fetched through dedicated series endpoints. - Artifact uploads and downloads always go through InstantML API routes. - Customer-owned GCP ClickHouse remains available for Premium teams. ## Current benchmark signal The hosted GCP ClickHouse path has been benchmarked through the production data service against the `normal-runs-50k` showcase project: 50,000 runs and 522,000,000 metric points (measured 2026-05-23). | Query | p95 | | --- | ---: | | Project newest-100 run list | 236 ms | | Metric-best sort | 307 ms | | Project overview | 418 ms | | 1,000-point chart read from a 20,000-step series | 224 ms | See [Benchmarks](/docs/benchmarks.md) for the full methodology, fairness notes, and comparison data. ## Next steps - [Benchmarks](/docs/benchmarks.md) - [Customer-owned ClickHouse](/docs/guides/customer-owned-clickhouse.md) - [Storage model](/docs/architecture/storage-model.md) - [Service planes](/docs/architecture/service-planes.md) - [Health and observability API](/docs/api/health-observability.md) ## Agent navigation - [Docs index](/llms.txt) - [Full docs bundle](/llms-full.txt) ### Get Started - [Overview](/docs/index.md) - [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart.md) - [Core Concepts](/docs/concepts/core-concepts.md) - [Pricing](/docs/pricing.md) - [Benchmarks](/docs/benchmarks.md) - [Examples](/docs/guides/examples.md) - [Troubleshooting](/docs/troubleshooting.md) ### SDK - [Installation Auth](/docs/sdk/installation-auth.md) - [Logging](/docs/sdk/logging.md) - [Tracing](/docs/sdk/tracing.md) - [Metrics Steps](/docs/sdk/metrics-steps.md) - [Config Tags Notes](/docs/sdk/config-tags-notes.md) - [Artifacts Checkpoints](/docs/sdk/artifacts-checkpoints.md) - [Rich Objects](/docs/sdk/rich-objects.md) - [Distributed Training](/docs/sdk/distributed-training.md) - 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