Databricks Senior Staff Product Manager Jonathan Katz said the rise of AI agents is breaking the 40-year-old separation between operational and analytical databases, and introduced LTAP (Lake Transact…
Databricks will present four papers and a keynote at VLDB 2026, introducing Lakebase, a serverless Postgres over open lake storage, and LTAP, a paradigm unifying transactional and analytical processin…
Databricks reported that adoption of its Lakebase Postgres database has grown at more than twice the rate of its data warehousing product since launch, with thousands of companies running production w…
Databricks announced general availability of Lakebase, its serverless Postgres product for AI agents, which reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue in its first year. The company also closed …
OceanBase CTO Charlie Yang outlined the company's roadmap to rival Databricks as an AI data platform at OceanBase Hours in Singapore, arguing that databases can serve as the foundation for AI data pla…
Databricks announced that its Feature Store now serves machine learning features with sub-second freshness, achieving an end-to-end p99 latency of 200ms from event arrival in Kafka to availability in …
Databricks has acquired Electric, a startup specializing in WebAssembly-based Postgres databases, to embed local databases directly into AI agent environments. The technology, including PGlite and Ele…
Databricks is acquiring Electric to bring PGlite, a WebAssembly-based Postgres database that runs locally in browsers and Node.js, and its synchronization engine into its Lakebase architecture for AI …
Databricks announced it crossed $7 billion in revenue run-rate, growing over 80% year over year in Q2, and raised $5 billion in its latest fundraise. The company reported $100 million+ revenue run-rat…
Databricks closed a funding round at a $188 billion valuation, led by Coatue Management with roughly $3 billion invested, nearly tripling its valuation from $62 billion in late 2024. The company repor…
Databricks is acquiring Electric, a startup that provides WebAssembly-based Postgres databases for application environments, for an undisclosed sum, to enable developers to run data closer to AI agent…
Electric, the open-source sync engine, is joining Databricks to integrate its data primitives and reactivity into Lakebase, aiming to make it the best platform for building apps and agents. The compan…
Databricks acquired Electric, a company known for its lightweight database PGlite, which enables AI coding on mobile devices. The acquisition allows developers to run AI agents on low-powered devices …
Databricks has acquired Electric, the company behind PGlite and a real-time sync engine, to bring WASM Postgres to AI agent sandboxes and extend its Postgres capabilities from the lakehouse to the edg…
Neon has launched Neon Object Storage in beta, a branch-aware, S3-compatible object store integrated into its backend, available free to all users during beta. The service allows users to branch both …
Databricks Lakebase, a Postgres-compatible database with decoupled storage on lake storage, enables sub-second branching and ephemeral instances, making it suitable for agentic data projects that need…
Databricks Inc. introduced ProdLine CoPilot, a compound AI agent that streams operational technology data into its Data Intelligence Platform to let line managers optimize production in real time, not…
Databricks has published a cheatsheet for its Certified Context Engineer Associate exam, detailing the seven exam sections, context failure modes, and product stack recommendations. The guide covers t…
Databricks raised $3 billion at a $188 billion valuation, a 40% jump from its $134 billion mark five months ago, and revealed that its 3,000 engineers are defaulting to Chinese open-source model GLM 5…
Databricks Inc. is finalizing a funding round that will value it at $188 billion, with Coatue leading the $3 billion investment. The company plans to use the proceeds to expand its AI capabilities, fo…