Use Case
The world's greatest OLAP database deserves a governed API layer.
Minimal completes ClickHouse — and every database built on it.
ClickHouse is the fastest columnar database on the planet. ByteHouse, Proton, chDB, and Altinity are built on the same foundation. Minimal gives the entire ClickHouse protocol family the one thing that makes them complete — a governed, production-safe REST API layer that any developer, business user, or AI agent can use without writing a line of SQL.
ClickHouse at its best.Accessible to everyone.
Your analytics database is ClickHouse. Your data team gets everything they need from it. The rest of your organisation — product managers, customers, AI agents — are one SQL barrier away from the same answers. Minimal removes that barrier. ClickHouse keeps doing what it does best. Everyone gets access to what it knows.
- REST endpoints over every ClickHouse table — no SQL required
- Full aggregation support — GROUP BY, HAVING, window functions — as governed endpoints
- Runtime governance — works without row-level security in the database
- AI agents via MCP — scoped, auditable, production-safe
- Natural language to live ClickHouse dashboard via Insights
- Works across the ClickHouse family — ClickHouse Cloud, Altinity, ByteHouse, Proton, chDB
Runtime governance.Database untouched.
ClickHouse is architected for speed at scale. Minimal respects that architecture completely. Governance lives in Minimal's runtime — not in the database. ClickHouse keeps doing what it was built for. Minimal adds the conversation layer on top.
Connect ClickHouse
ClickHouse Cloud, self-hosted, or local via tunnel. Schema surfaced instantly.
Every table becomes an endpoint
Full aggregate support — GROUP BY, HAVING, ORDER BY, window functions — as first-class governed REST endpoints.
Define who sees what
Roles and power tokens scope access at the runtime level. The database is untouched.
Open to everyone
Developers via REST. Business users via Insights in English. AI agents via MCP. All governed. All audited.
The Difference
ClickHouse alone
SQL — data engineers only
Aggregations require a query per request
AI agents: custom integration required per deployment
Business users: ticket queue to the data team
Access: all-or-nothing SQL credentials
ClickHouse + Minimal
REST endpoints — anyone you authorise
Aggregations as governed, first-class endpoints
AI agents: MCP-native, scoped, auditable, zero SQL
Business users: ask in English, live dashboard in minutes
Access: role-scoped, power tokens, revocable
ClickHouse alone
SQL — data engineers only
Aggregations require a query per request
AI agents: custom integration required per deployment
Business users: ticket queue to the data team
Access: all-or-nothing SQL credentials
ClickHouse + Minimal
REST endpoints — anyone you authorise
Aggregations as governed, first-class endpoints
AI agents: MCP-native, scoped, auditable, zero SQL
Business users: ask in English, live dashboard in minutes
Access: role-scoped, power tokens, revocable
See it on live data.
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