people · May 17, 2026
Aaron Katz Meets Satya Nadella Amid Surging ClickHouse Demand on Azure
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ClickHouse CEO Aaron Katz posted on May 14, 2026, about meeting Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Bipul Sinha at a time of surging demand for ClickHouseDB on Azure. The post included a photo from the meeting and highlighted the growing adoption of the open-source database on Microsoft’s cloud platform. ClickHouse has seen increased enterprise usage for real-time analytics workloads running on Azure infrastructure. The engagement reflects competitive positioning in the data analytics space where Azure competes with other major cloud providers. Nadella and Katz discussed the expanding role of ClickHouse in Microsoft’s ecosystem.