Databricks announced it is acquiring Mooncake Labs to accelerate its vision of a Lakebase—a new category of OLTP database built on Postgres and optimized for AI agents.
With Lakebase, developers gain a single foundation for applications, analytics and AI, fully integrated with the Databricks Lakehouse and Agent Bricks.
Mooncake enables developers and agents to run transactions, analytics, and AI workloads on the same fresh data without the overhead of ETL pipelines. Postgres changes are mirrored in real time to the lakehouse, ensuring analytics and AI stay current as agents create new tables, events, and workflows at unprecedented speeds, the company said.
With Mooncake’s innovations incorporated into Lakebase, developers and enterprises gain:
- Unification: A single foundation for apps, analytics, and AI, powered by the same fresh data
- Scale with agents: The ability to handle rapid creation of apps and data sources without having to manage an explosion of complex ETL pipelines
- Agent-ready integration: Data is available instantly into the Lakehouse and Agent Bricks, enabling real-time reasoning and decision-making by AI agents.
- Team expertise: The Mooncake team brings deep knowledge of Postgres and open table formats, with proven innovation at the intersection of OLTP and the lakehouse.
Beyond the technology, the Mooncake team brings deep expertise in Postgres internals, distributed systems, and open table formats including Iceberg, according to the vendors. Their experience at the intersection of OLTP and AI-scale workloads strengthens Lakebase’s ability to deliver on its vision: a unified foundation for applications, analytics, and AI agents.
Together, Databricks and Mooncake will reimagine the operational database for the age of AI. The future will be defined by agent-driven applications that generate and adapt code, workflows, and data at machine speed.
“To support this shift, enterprises need a single foundation where applications, analytics, and AI agents all run together—without pipelines, silos, or delays. By combining Lakebase’s new architecture with Mooncake’s innovations, we are building that foundation,” said Databricks.
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