Database Branching in Postgres: Git-Style Workflows with Databricks Lakebase

Databricks Lakebase introduces database branching for Postgres, enabling Git-style isolated environments without full data copies. Using a copy-on-write, compute-storage-separated architecture, branches are created in seconds regardless of database size. Common patterns include one branch per developer, per pull request, per CI test run, and for instant point-in-time recovery. Non-production branches auto-scale to zero when idle, making it economical to create and discard them freely. The CLI, console, or API can provision a branch in under a minute.