Inside Lakebase: fully-managed serverless Postgres – Nikita Shamgunov, VP, Engineering, Databricks
Databricks built Lakebase, a serverless Postgres that decouples compute from storage by moving storage to the lake.
“we're going to have more software generated in the next year than in the history of humanity”
Databricks VP of Engineering Nikita Shamgunov introduced Lakebase, a fully-managed serverless Postgres re-architected to decouple compute and storage by moving storage onto the lake, with new safekeeper services for read/write consistency. It targets the surge of AI-generated applications and agents that need a familiar, branchable, and mission-critical operational database. This signals the convergence of operational databases with lakehouse architecture aimed squarely at the agentic software era.