[nwatson]

I worked on a columnar database engine deployed on commodity Linux clusters in 2001, initial release 2002. This was at Sensage. We built a very fast DB engine that could store log data with 40x compression over traditional RDBMSs and ran log queries much more quickly than commercial DBs could at the time. I think we were too early.

Current Sensage company blurb about the event-data warehouse: http://sensage.com/content/clustered-columnar-database and http://sensage.com/content/why-columnar%E2%80%A6not-row-base...

Patent work: http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/7024414.html

The core engineering team was CTO + 3 engineers. Best engineering experience of my life. I wasn't involved at the lowest DB storage level, the guys who did that did a great job.

Michael Stonebraker, technical advisor to Sensage, learned from the Sensage mistakes and built Vertica.

[grundprinzip]

Just one point: Vertica came out of the research project C-Store which was a PhD thesis by Dan Abadi. However, the outcome is the same :)

[clouderashiring]

Sounds like Impala could use your talent. You should talk with them.

[nwatson]

Thanks for the pointer! Looking at Cloudera's jobs board, most tech-heavy work is in SF or Palo Alto. I live in San Mateo, convenient to both of those, but ... I'm likely leaving for the North Carolina RTP area soon.

[hammerbacher]

Cloudera has an office in RTP (Raleigh) as well: http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/about/contact-us...