Databricks unveils Lakehouse//RT and Reyden to enable millisecond-latency serving workloads without copying data out of the Lakehouse.
“the warehouses or the Lakehouses hit a wall at about a second”
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26 tracked signals on lakehouse.
Databricks launches CustomerLake, an agentic CDP on the lakehouse with LLM-powered profile and campaign agents.
“But now we can really personalize with really cheap, small, uh distilled LLMs, one-to-one uh continuous campaigns.”
Databricks unveiled an agent-context platform stack at Data + AI Summit 2026 Day 1, anchored by Genie ontology and agents.
“We have our agents but they're lacking context. We want to give them all that context on the platform.”
Databricks introduces LTAP, a storage technology unifying OLTP and OLAP on one copy of data.
“We think Altab is H-Tab done right and accomplished the goals of H-Tab without actually having a single query engine for it, but we able to actually unify the storage which is by far the most important part.”
Databricks launches Lakehouse RT, a real-time warehouse powered by the Raiden engine running directly on the lake.
“If you have a separate serving stack, test it out and you might be able to collapse the two platforms into one.”
Databricks introduces a native FILE column type for storing multimodal data in tables
PepsiCo consolidated 60+ data lakes into one Databricks lakehouse, with 90% of its data now on the platform powering AI.
“for us, what we truly believe is an AI transformation is a data transformation”
Unity Catalog enforces fine-grained access controls on external engines like open-source Spark, not just Databricks.
“Fine-grained access controls defined once and enforced everywhere, plus external engines that can read and write to UC managed tables.”
PepsiCo partnered with Microsoft to build an agentic AI solution on a unified lakehouse data platform.
“so many companies believe if they don't have the right data infrastructure, the right data, the right secure data, quality data, AI projects are kind of doomed to fail”
ModMed uses Databricks Lakehouse and Genie to enable agentic healthcare AI without custom app development
“they want the "rehumanization" of healthcare so that the doctor can focus on caring for the patient in front of him”
Databricks launches ai_decide AI Function for fast, governed data decisions
Databricks is presenting Lakebase, streaming, and lakehouse innovations at VLDB 2026.
Neo4j proposes graph representations to give AI agents richer context from lakehouses than queries alone
“context coming in shapes and not necessarily queries”
Databricks Lakebase enables Git-style database branching for CI/CD data workflows in production
pg_lake, an open-source extension turning Postgres into a lakehouse, now sits at the core of Snowflake's Postgres service.
“pg_lake essentially brings this technology into Postgres.”
Databricks launches Cross-Engine ABAC to unify access control across lakehouse engines
Databricks claims lakehouse architecture outperforms traditional data warehouses in 2026 benchmarks
Cellcentric moves R&D data into a lakehouse to enable AI agents to access it
AVL modernized automotive measurement data analytics by moving time-series test bench data to a Databricks lakehouse via Impulse.
Databricks argues Liquid Clustering outperforms traditional partitioning for data layout optimization.
Databricks introduces REGISTER and UNREGISTER APIs to prevent catalog lock-in in lakehouse architectures.
HSS built MD360 on Databricks Lakehouse to eliminate provider administrative burden while keeping AI cautious for healthcare safety.
“Today, the only thing holding us back is our imagination and willingness to change what we often believe has always been the way things have been done”
Databricks introduces declarative ETL patterns for Lakehouse SQL workflows
Databricks Lakehouse turns NBA player-tracking data into competitive advantage for sports teams.
Databricks IP Functions reach GA for high-performance network analytics in the Lakehouse
New SQL features simplify migrating stored procedures from warehouses to lakehouses