- Published on June 12, 2025
- In Global Tech
‘Postgres Has Won’
Lakebase is built on open-source Postgres, which benefits from a large developer community and is compatible with existing tools and extensions.
- By Siddharth Jindal
As previously reported by AIM, the Snowflake-Databricks rivalry has entered the Postgres space, a move Databricks made official with its new product announcements at the Data + AI Summit 2025.
The company launched Lakebase, a fully managed Postgres database integrated with its Data Intelligence Platform and built for AI-driven application development. Now in public preview, Lakebase adds an operational layer to the lakehouse ecosystem, enabling developers and enterprises to build AI applications and agents on a single, multi-cloud platform.
“Postgres has essentially won as the lingua franca for open source databases,” said Databricks chief Ali Ghodsi while announcing the product. He added that the best thing about Postgres is the extensions that the community has built over the y
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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