#PostgreSQL

Databricks Eyes AI Future with Lakebase, Streaming

Databricks unveils Lakebase, a serverless PostgreSQL over open lake storage, and other innovations at VLDB 2026 to power the AI era.

Open Source AI: Beyond Virtue to Ownership

Open source AI infrastructure is an ownership strategy, not charity. Controlling the AI model orchestration layer is key for long-term stability and auditability.

YC QM Agent Harness: A Collaborative AI Shift

Y Combinator's new open-source QM project introduces a multiplayer agent harness for startups, focusing on collaborative AI with isolated workspaces and flexible model integration.

Databricks Pushes Agentic AI with Lakebase

Databricks bolsters its Lakehouse platform with Lakebase and partner solutions to accelerate agentic AI development and data modernization.

Abed Matini on Hybrid RAG, SQL, and UI Telemetry

Abed Matini from Ogilvy discusses hybrid RAG, SQL, and UI telemetry for efficient document chatbots, highlighting challenges and solutions.

Snowflake Simplifies Postgres Data Sync

Snowflake's new data mirroring and data lake features aim to seamlessly connect PostgreSQL transactional data with its analytical platform, eliminating complex ETL pipelines.

Databricks: Always-On Pricing

Databricks introduces Always-On pricing for Lakehouse Postgres, offering a 25% discount on baseline capacity without long-term commitments.

Spark Streams Tackle Fraud in Milliseconds

Databricks' Spark Real-Time Mode and Lakebase offer a unified platform for sub-second fraud detection, eliminating complex infrastructure.

Databricks Unifies Data Governance

Databricks integrates operational databases into Unity Catalog, simplifying governance, auditing, and cost attribution for all data workloads.

nOps Rebuilds Cloud Savings Platform on Databricks

nOps rebuilt its cloud cost optimization platform on Databricks Lakebase, integrating operational and analytical data for greater efficiency.

Backstage Ditches Postgres for Databricks Lakebase

Databricks integrates Spotify's Backstage with Lakebase, enabling instant database branching and transforming developer workflows by eliminating operational vs. analytical database silos.

Killing the Builder's Tax for AI Apps

Tech leaders are cutting development costs and speeding up AI deployment by unifying data and applications on a single platform.

pgvector: Postgres's AI Vector Power-Up

pgvector brings vector embeddings and similarity search directly into PostgreSQL, simplifying AI apps like RAG and semantic search.

Databricks Postgres branches like Git

Databricks Lakebase brings Git-style branching to Postgres, offering near-instant, isolated database environments via copy-on-write technology.

Databricks Tackles Downtime

Databricks introduces 'prewarming' to its Lakebase architecture, eliminating performance dips and downtime during database patching.

Databricks Lakehouse Gets Postgres Boost on Azure

Databricks launches Azure Databricks Lakebase, a serverless PostgreSQL service integrating operational data into the lakehouse for unified app development and analytics.

Supabase Secures $100M to Scale its PostgreSQL AI Database

Snowflake Acquires Crunchy Data for $250 Million to Boost AI Capabilities