So what does this mean for ingestion (and indexing)? Iceberg V3? Paimon? Bespoke ingestion through the DB engine to do the indexing?

Congrats Andy, hope you enjoy the ride =)

The goal of ClickHouse Labs is to establish a best-in-class industry research organization focused on databases. It will not operate as an isolated research organization that throws ideas over the wall to engineering. Instead, we will work closely with ClickHouse engineers, customers, collaborators, and industry partners to develop and disseminate new ideas that keep ClickHouse at the bleeding edge.

This is cool, though bittersweet that the public research infrastructure (universities) is not really configured to support this kind of high-impact research any more.

This entry is not only wrong, it's way outdated, therefore misinforming. I'm wondering about the overall quality of this dbdb.io database at large.

Best of luck!

Whatever floats your boat. Sounds like you just work as an engineer at a db company

ClickHouse had features that at the time were only found in a handful of closed-source, commercial analytical DBMSs. For example, ClickHouse was written in C++ and supported vectorized query execution using SIMD in 2016. Most prominent open-source analytical DBMSs in 2016 were JVM-based and did not support SIMD optimizations until years later.

Performance is a feature. "Written in C++" is a strange idea of a feature.