ClickHouse Labs is an applied research group that works closely with engineering teams to identify challenging problems in database systems and develop novel solutions. Our goal is to advance the state of the art and translate research ideas into real-world system improvements.
I am looking for database / systems / AI researchers to help establish a world-class research team:
There are several out of date entries in there. We used to have students help with writing entries. I just did a major refresh of the site this summer. I need to go through all the entries and figure out how to update them.
Remy - Good to hear from you. Yes things are mess right now. Let me get settled with setting up the lab and we'll figure out how we want to engage with academia.
I “audited” CMU 15-445 in April 2026, a few months ago. I then applied to Azure Hyperscale DB team, and as my pitch to get hired I cold DM’d the hiring manager whatever I finished in the assignments (BPM, Concurrent B-tree, Transaction support etc).
With that, I was able to get the interview although I ended up failing it. My lack of experience in C++ was probably one of the main reasons. Your course helped me stand my own during the interview and even though I had zero database experience apart from finishing the course, I felt adequately prepared.
Thank you for making the course open source. As a working professional, it was helpful to be able to do the course on my own time. Suffice to say, I am a big fan of your work and thank you for introducing me (and other fellow learners) to the interesting world of Databases!
I know it’s a troll, This was no MOOC. I didn’t even get a certificate.
I saw the job opening in the careers portal and just cold DM’d the HM. As to why I DM’d, what do I have to lose ? I was already working at MSFT in a different team. The worst that could happen was that he would just ignore the message. Also, I didn’t nag the HM, it was just one DM where I summarised the things I did in the course. He then asked me to send me my resume and that was it.
I'm not sure what you think "research lab" means? As I mentioned in the article, we look at IBM Research (Almaden) and Microsoft Research as inspiration.
I've never heard of the "Willow" data model before. It looks just like the hierarchical data model (restricted to two levels) from the 1960s with timestamp versioning.
It is not clear what problem this is trying to solve that can't be handled by the relational model.
ClickHouse Labs is an applied research group that works closely with engineering teams to identify challenging problems in database systems and develop novel solutions. Our goal is to advance the state of the art and translate research ideas into real-world system improvements.
I am looking for database / systems / AI researchers to help establish a world-class research team:
* Research Scientist (all levels): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clickhouse/962f45f3-d8d3-4073-add2-...
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More info: https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156011