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Lakebase

Databricks’ managed Postgres product with separated storage and compute.

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First seen:2026-05-10

Last seen:2026-05-10

Sightings:1

Source:databricks.com

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What it is

Databricks’ managed Postgres product with separated storage and compute.

Why developers recommend it

The thread treated the architecture as solid and compared it to familiar transactional databases.

Hacker News evidence

2026-05-10

Commenters said Lakebase is for transactional use cases, compared it to AWS Aurora, and noted Databricks customers use it for many small Postgres instances.

Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes

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