Databricks and Neon
a year ago
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- Databricks announces acquisition of Neon, a serverless Postgres company.
- Neon's architecture separates storage and compute, designed for modern developers and AI systems.
- Neon's team includes Postgres experts and database veterans.
- Neon was founded to disrupt the database industry with a focus on developer experience.
- Neon's architecture enables features like database branching similar to Git.
- AI agents create over 80% of databases on Neon, up from 30% last year.
- Neon's founders have strong backgrounds in databases and open source.
- Databricks and Neon share a commitment to open source and technical innovation.
- OLTP databases are a $100B market ripe for disruption by developers and AI.
- Existing Neon customers will continue to receive support and innovation under Databricks.
- Databricks plans to share more at the Data + AI Summit in June.