$NBIS Hidden gem many don’t know about (ClickHouse)
So I gained a lot of followers because of this company, and I already explained what Token Factory is and how it is important for
$NBIS. However, there is one more asset Nebius owns that many investors either overlook or underestimate its potential.
Let me present you: ClickHouse
It is an open-source columnar database designed for online analytical processing (OLAP), originally developed by Yandex.
To explain it in basic terms, if you store data in databases (most typical transactional databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL), you do it row by row, because, for example, banks often want to search information about a given customer, so they just search for the ID of the customer, and the whole row pops up and they get everything about the customer they care about.
But imagine you have 1 billion rows, 50 columns, and you care about, for example, the average spending in the whole database. This is where ClickHouse comes in and uses column-by-column storing. Then, instead of reading 50 billion values, a column-based database might read only 1 billion values. Obviously, the idea is more sophisticated, where ClickHouse developed additional compression algorithms, but for our explanation, this is sufficient, as you now know what ClickHouse does. Importantly, the main advantage is that it often stores data using 5-10x less space than traditional databases.
To give you an example, imagine you operate 100,000 GPUs and every second, that GPU sends information such as:
- timestamp
- GPU ID
- temperature
- utilization
- memory usage
100,000 GPUs -> 1 month = 259,200,000,000 records
And now an engineer asks: "What was the average GPU utilization by hour last week?"
Instead of going through all rows, the query only needs timestamp and utilization and you save a lot of time.
And you know who uses ClickHouse? The biggest players such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Tesla, Cisco, Alibaba, Spotify and many others.
So, now that you get the importance of the company, what if I told you that
$NBIS owns approximately 28% of ClickHouse and its valuation is growing rapidly.
In May 2025, the company was valued at rougly $6.35B
In January 2026, the valuation increased to $15B, which is ~236% increase in 7 months, think about the speed of this.
If we would expect the company to "only" double its valuation throughout the whole 2026, we would get to $30B.
Implying $NBIS’s stake being worth $8.4B (current market cap is $59B).
What’s funny is that many investors have no idea what ClickHouse is and they think it is just some small partner or whatever, but it might soon represent $10B stake for
$NBIS.
If you have any questions, I am happy to answer them as always.
Thanks for reading!