ClickHouse Launches ClickHouse Labs With Andy Pavlo as VP of Database Research

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Or sign-in if you have an account.Andy Pavlo, VP of Database Research, ClickHouse Business WireRenowned database researcher will lead a new group dedicated to advancing foundational database technology and sharing its work openly with the broader communityTHIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLYSubscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.Exclusive articles from Barbara Shecter, Joe O'Connor, Gabriel Friedman, and others.Daily content from Financial Times, the world's leading global business publication.Unlimited online access to read articles from Financial Post, National Post and 15 news sites across Canada with one account.National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on.Daily puzzles, including the New York Times Crossword.SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLESSubscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.Exclusive articles from Barbara Shecter, Joe O'Connor, Gabriel Friedman and others.Daily content from Financial Times, the world's leading global business publication.Unlimited online access to read articles from Financial Post, National Post and 15 news sites across Canada with one account.National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on.Daily puzzles, including the New York Times Crossword.REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLESCreate an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.Access articles from across Canada with one account.Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments.Enjoy additional articles per month.Get email updates from your favourite authors.THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK.Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.Access articles from across Canada with one accountShare your thoughts and join the conversation in the commentsEnjoy additional articles per monthGet email updates from your favourite authorsSign In or Create an AccountSAN FRANCISCO — ClickHouse today announced the launch of ClickHouse Labs, a new research group led by Andy Pavlo, one of the database industry’s most prominent researchers. Dr. Pavlo joins ClickHouse as Vice President of Database Research and will build a team dedicated to advancing the state of the art in database systems.Pavlo is an award-winning database researcher and professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department. He is known throughout the database community for his work on autonomous databases, transaction processing, and large-scale data analytics. At ClickHouse, he will bring that expertise to some of the most ambitious and consequential challenges facing modern data systems, as AI reshapes the demands placed on all data-intensive workloads.Get the latest headlines, breaking news and columns.By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.The next issue of Top Stories will soon be in your inbox.We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again“At ClickHouse, we are interested in finding new and innovative ways of processing data, exploring efficient data structures and algorithms, and pushing computer hardware to its limits,” said Alexey Milovidov, CTO of ClickHouse. “I’m thrilled that Andy Pavlo is joining ClickHouse as VP of Database Research and will lead our new research group, ClickHouse Labs.”Advancing database technology in the openClickHouse Labs will pursue foundational research across database and data architectures, query processing, systems performance, and infrastructure, for both ClickHouse and PostgreSQL databases. Advances in these underlying technologies will power the next generation of real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI applications.“The most exciting database research does more than describe a new idea in a paper. It demonstrates what is possible by building and testing real systems,” said Pavlo. “ClickHouse has an exceptional engineering culture, a strong open-source community, and workloads that push database technology to its limits. ClickHouse Labs gives us an opportunity to take on difficult problems, evaluate them in real-world scenarios, and share what we discover with the broader community and ecosystem.”Research that changes what is possibleBefore co-founding the company, Yury Izrailevsky, ClickHouse President of Product and Technology, served as VP of Engineering at Google, which has a long history of turning foundational research into industry-defining technology. Some of the clearest examples come from research that began with Google’s own most demanding technical challenges.Google’s Spanner paper introduced a new model for globally distributed databases, demonstrating that systems could operate at global scale while still supporting strongly consistent transactions. Years later, Attention Is All You Need introduced the Transformer architecture, laying the foundation for modern large language models and today’s paradigm-shifting era of AI. In both cases, research conducted within a company did more than solve an internal problem: it changed what was technically possible and gave the broader industry an entirely new foundation to build on.ClickHouse Labs is founded on the same belief. By combining ambitious research with hands-on systems development, the team aims to advance ClickHouse and PostgreSQL while contributing new ideas and technologies to the broader database ecosystem.Researchers will build and test their ideas against demanding real-world workloads, work closely with ClickHouse engineers, and publish their findings in leading research venues so others can evaluate, extend, and build upon them.“Because ClickHouse is open source, ideas developed here can be tested, challenged, and extended by teams around the world,” said Yury Izrailevsky, President of Product and Technology at ClickHouse. “With Andy leading ClickHouse Labs, we have an opportunity to pursue foundational research with the potential to shape both the future of ClickHouse and the broader database industry.”Andy Pavlo is an Associate Professor with Indefinite Tenure in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Since 2013, he has led the Carnegie Mellon Database Research Group. His work has received several of the database community’s highest honors, including the IEEE TCDE Ramez Elmasri Database Education Award, VLDB Early Career Award, NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, and ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Best Dissertation Award in Databases. Pavlo previously co-founded and served as CEO of OtterTune, which applied machine learning to database optimization.At ClickHouse, Pavlo will serve as VP of Database Research and lead the development of ClickHouse Labs, its research agenda, and its team.ClickHouse is a fast, open-source columnar database built for real-time data processing and analytics at scale. ClickHouse Cloud delivers the query speed and concurrency that applications demanding instant insight from large volumes of data require. As AI agents become more embedded in software, generating higher query volumes at tighter latency, ClickHouse provides a high-throughput, low-latency engine purpose-built for that workload. Customers include Sony, Tesla, Anthropic, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Lyft, and Instacart. More at clickhouse.com.View source version on businesswire.com: This advertisement has not loaded yet.Notice for the Postmedia NetworkThis website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Read more about cookies here. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.