Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs
Andy Pavlo, a renowned database researcher and professor at Carnegie Mellon, is joining ClickHouse to lead a new research team, ClickHouse Labs. The lab aims to bridge academic research and industry engineering, focusing on advancing ClickHouse and its PostgreSQL offering. Pavlo plans to accelerate the validation of the engineering team's backlog of ideas and explore how databases can support AI and agentic technologies.
This will be a next-level collaboration like when Killer Mike hooked up with El-P to create a hip-hop supergroup.
- a34729t
I'm very curious about the convergence of the best in class fast OLAP products (StarRocks, ClickHouse) with Trino. It sounds like everybody is going for decoupled compute/storage, using S3 or similar as the storage layer, and thus forgoing colocated joins (ok I know ClickHouse joins suck)...
So what does this mean for ingestion (and indexing)? Iceberg V3? Paimon? Bespoke ingestion through the DB engine to do the indexing?
- remywang
Looks like Andy's here, so if you see this - please also try to convince ClickHouse to consider funding DB research in academia. With all the money being poured into AI and the chaos in government funding, there is almost nothing for DB research anymore.
- tomsanbear
Always enjoyed his lecture series from CMU, hopefully those continue in a sponsored format from Clickhouse.
- danlark1
Congrats, that's incredible news. Watched apavlo@'s lectures while studying in the university and finished my bachelor thesis implementing features and doing research at ClickHouse. Surprised to see these worlds being together now!
- gavinray
Clickhouse just became the hottest talent-attraction on the market.
Congrats Andy, hope you enjoy the ride =)