Andy Pavlo
@andypavlo.bsky.social
Database Research @ ClickHouse Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
Special treat for the @andypavlo.bsky.social fans: an in-depth discussion about what happens to databases when billions of agents hit them, his move to ClickHouse, and his hot takes on the database market (Postgres, vector, graph, GPU) 🎙️ Spotify, Apple, YouTube youtu.be/74X0DJOVEc8?...
Andy Pavlo: What Happens When Billions of AI Agents Hit Your Database
YouTube video by The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
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Database Research Scientist
ClickHouse Labs Database Research Scientist
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Today's "Andy at Sea" Database Seminar Speaker: Marco Primi will discuss how @antithesis.com automatically finds bugs in database systems (aka the most important software in the world). Public Zoom talk at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/andy-...
[Andy at Sea] Everything Has Bugs. Here’s How Antithesis Catches Them. - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
Programs used to run on a single computer start to end. Today... Read More +
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Today's "Andy at Sea" Database Seminar Speaker: Owen Xiao will present the architecture of Apache Doris. Public Zoom talk at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/andy-...
[Andy at Sea] Apache Doris: Real-Time Analytics and Search Database for AI Agents - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
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I am giving a keynote next Tuesday at the "Rows & Columns Summit" in SFO on the history of hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP) database management systems: Broken Dreams, Broken Promises, Broken Marriages. rowsandcolumnssummit.com
If you're coming to #VLDB2026, join me + @clickhouse.com for data trivia on Monday Aug 31st @ 6pm. I will be hosting the database trivia section (aka the best part). Invite open to the public: luma.com/clickh-thmi Co-sponsored by @temporal.io + PuppyGraph
The Boston Data Party Trivia Night · Luma
Join us for a night of data, drinks, and friendly competition during VLDB in Boston! ClickHouse, Temporal, and PuppyGraph are teaming up to host a trivia night…
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New @db.cs.cmu.edu Seminar Series: Whatever Andy Found Interesting While Out At Sea An eclectic collection of database technical talks. Mondays @ 4:30pm ET starting Sep 21 over Zoom. Open to the public. Video on Youtube afterwards. db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/fal...
Whatever Andy Found Interesting While Out At Sea - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
This semester, the Carnegie Mellon University Database Group is launching a seminar... Read More +
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Our new version of dbdb.io tracks the commit history of open-source databases. We also track which coding agents are tagged in commits. Copilot has the most overall usage but Claude occurs in the most recent commits.
👊I've joined the crew at @clickhouse.com to establish the *ClickHouse Labs* research group. We'll be working side-by-side with ClickHouse engineers to cook up ways to make the system even faster. I'll also be exploring new research topics related to PostgreSQL. clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pa...
Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs | ClickHouse
I am excited to announce that I am joining ClickHouse, Inc. to establish and lead a new research team at ClickHouse Labs.
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I was heartened to see so many former @db.cs.cmu.edu students lighting it up at Snowflake today! Graduation dates range from 2018 to 2026!
Stonebraker is not happy with existing Text2SQL tooling: cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/if-...
If You Think You Can Do Real-World Text-to-SQL – Communications of the ACM
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My former #1 PhD students @wslim.bsky.social @17zhangw.bsky.social have a new startup @onewill.ai on controlling agent behavior. Git protects your code. But agents do more than spit code. Databases already solved this. OneWill makes agents live database-centric lifestyles. Demo: youtu.be/7zeeaklngTE
OneWill - Agent Retcon Demo
YouTube video by OneWill
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Wan Shen Lim@wslim.bsky.social · 3mo agoUnreliable systems and misbehaving agents are surprisingly similar. Odd behavior. Messy leftover state. After graduating from @andypavlo.bsky.social's lab @db.cs.cmu.edu, @17zhangw.bsky.social and I started @onewillai.bsky.social to adapt decades of database solutions to today's agent problems.
Prof. Andy Pavlo Wins the 2026 IEEE TCDE Ramez Elmasri Outstanding Database Education Award: db.cs.cmu.edu/2026/05/prof...
Prof. Andy Pavlo Wins 2026 IEEE TCDE Ramez Elmasri Outstanding Database Education Award - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
Pittsburgh, PA – The Carnegie Mellon Database Research Group is proud to... Read More +
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I'm excited to announce CMU-DB's DJ Cache ran the whole @cmu.edu circuit by winning the "Most Dank DJ" award again! This semester was the most vicious bracket ever seen in the cut. Every set was a straight-up street fight on the aux. Congratulations!
#SIGMOD2026 Research Track Honorable Mention: F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future Xinyu Zeng, Ruijun Meng, Martin Prammer, @wesmckinney.com, @pateljm.bsky.social , @andypavlo.bsky.social, and Huanchen Zhang 2026.sigmod.org/sigmod_award... #ACM #sigmodresearchtrack #sigmodawards
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We now offer @db.cs.cmu.edu's Database Systems course offline to incarcerated students across US prisons. No WiFi, completely free. Locked in by the system, freed by the lock manager: db.cs.cmu.edu/2026/05/cmud... Thanks to @convex.dev for helping make sure the database game is for everybody!
Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Dr. Xiangyao Yu (@xiangyaoyu.bsky.social) will present the architecture of the Sirius GPU-native database system. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...
Sirius: A GPU-Native SQL Engine (Xiangyao Yu) - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
GPUs have evolved into powerful, cost-efficient engines for general-purpose parallel compute. This... Read More +
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Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Steve Schirripa (MSE'00) will present how @villagesql.bsky.social is injecting new life into MySQL via extensions. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...
The Extensibility Tax: Decisions, Principles, and Lessons from a Year of Teaching MySQL New Tricks (Steve Schirripa) - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
What does it take to add custom data types and indexes to... Read More +
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The founders of FloeDB (Mark Cusack + Kurt Westerfeld) gave an interesting @db.cs.cmu.edu talk their new Iceberg-compatible query engine. Two key takeaways from their talk: 1️⃣ Floe is a hard fork of Yellowbrick. 2️⃣ Floe is building a "catalog-of-catalogs" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq3c...
Floe: A SQL Compute Service for the Data Lakehouse (Kurt Westerfeld + Mark Cusack)
YouTube video by CMU Database Group
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Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Sugu Sougoumarane (ex-Vitess/PlanetScale) will present the architecture of @supabase.com's Multigres horizontal sharding system for Postgres. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...
Multigres: Bringing Horizontal Scaling and Enterprise Operations to PostgreSQL (Sugu Sougoumarane) - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
Multigres is an adaptation of Vitess for PostgreSQL that enables horizontal scaling... Read More +
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Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Tyler F. Cloutier will explain why and how they embedded a MMORPG game engine inside of the @spacetimedb.bsky.social database system. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...
Inverting the Backend: Why We Built our MMORPG Inside a Database (Tyler Cloutier) - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
This talk explores what happens when you move all the infrastructure and... Read More +
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Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Dr. Marcel Kornacker will present the design & implementation of the Pixeltable multi-modal DBMS based on PostgreSQL. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...
Pixeltable: A DBMS for Multimodal AI Applications (Marcel Kornacker) - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
Pixeltable is a novel OLTP DBMS specifically designed for multimodal AI applications.... Read More +
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Thanks to Google BigTable for providing prizes to the top 3 @db.cs.cmu.edu students with the fastest projects in our Database Systems course this semester! They have to implement a buffer pool, B+Tree, query executors, and MVCC. Students are encouraged to profile+benchmark to get better rankings.
This email showed up two weeks ago. It is super sketchy so I didn't respond. They followed again but I'm not meeting them. Andy and the police don't mix. 👑 Remember Rule #9 from Biggie's Ten Crack Commandments: If you aren't being arrested, stay away from police youtu.be/ot9NT9W0Fog
Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Filip Obradovic will present the wild architecture of TonicDB. It runs directly on hardware without an OS via a shim layer / unikernel. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...
TonicDB: Databases without an OS? Meet QuinineHM (Filip Obradovic) - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
We spent years optimizing database internals, only to have our performance eaten... Read More +
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Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Hari Krishna Sunder will present the architecture of the @yugabytedb.bsky.social distributed DBMS based on Postgres. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...
YugabyteDB: Distributed PostgreSQL for Modern Apps (Hari Krishna Sunder) - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
YugabyteDB is an AI-ready, multimodal, distributed PostgreSQL database. It effectively bridges the... Read More +
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Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Simon Eskildsen will present the architecture of the @turbopuffer.bsky.social search engine. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...
turbopuffer: Object Storage-native Database for Search (Simon Eskildsen) - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
turbopuffer is an object storage-native search engine. It puffs data into a... Read More +
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Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Adam Prout will present the architecture of Microsoft Azure HorizonDB database service based on PostgreSQL. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...
HorizonDB: Co‑Designing PostgreSQL and Azure for Cloud‑Native OLTP (Adam Prout) - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
Azure HorizonDB is a new PostgreSQL service that improves the OLTP performance... Read More +
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