databricks

Databricks acquires Mooncake Labs to advance Lakebase, a new OLTP database category built on Postgres for AI agents. Lakebase unifies transactional, analytical, and AI workloads on a single platform, eliminating ETL pipelines by mirroring Postgres changes in real-time to the lakehouse. This architecture addresses the challenge of traditional databases struggling to keep pace with agent-driven development that generates code and data at machine speed. The Mooncake team brings expertise in Postgres internals, distributed systems, and open table formats like Iceberg to strengthen the unified foundation for applications, analytics, and AI.

Mooncake Labs joins Databricks to accelerate the vision of Lakebase