MergeTree | ClickHouse Documentation
clickhouse.com › mergetree-family › mergetreeMergeTree The MergeTree engine and other engines of this family ( *MergeTree) are the most robust ClickHouse table engines. Engines in the MergeTree family are designed for inserting a very large amount of data into a table. The data is quickly written to the table part by part, then rules are applied for merging the parts in the background.
ReplacingMergeTree | ClickHouse Documentation
clickhouse.com › docs › enWhen merging, ReplacingMergeTree from all the rows with the same sorting key leaves only one: The last in the selection, if ver not set. A selection is a set of rows in a set of parts participating in the merge. The most recently created part (the last insert) will be the last one in the selection.