Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs(clickhouse.com)
318 points by nikolay_sivko 23 hours ago | 67 comments
tl;dr: CMU professor Andy Pavlo is joining ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs, an industry research group modeled after IBM Research and Microsoft Research. The team will work closely with ClickHouse engineers (and the PostgreSQL managed service team) to productionize backlogged optimizations and explore new research directions, including how DBMSs should evolve to support AI agents and how agents can automate DBMS development.
HN Discussion:
  • Enthusiastic congratulations and excitement about Andy joining ClickHouse
  • Appreciation for corporate investment in non-AI fundamental DB research
  • ~Request that ClickHouse also fund struggling academic DB research
  • Technical curiosity about OLAP convergence, storage decoupling, and ingestion implications
  • Criticism of the accuracy and quality of Andy's dbdb.io database entries