Databricks acquires Neon

Today, we are excited to announce that we have agreed to acquire Neon, a developer-first, serverless Postgres company. Neon’s co-founders are among the very few people in the world who could re-architect Postgres with true separation of storage and compute, built for modern developers and AI systems. Their world-class team of Postgres hackers and database veterans will join Databricks to deliver serverless Postgres at production scale to developers in an AI-native world. A developer-first mission, born from Postgres expertise Four years ago, the Neon co-founders joined together with a vision to disrupt the database industry. They observed that the foundations of database technologies were largely designed for the 90s era. Their goal was to build a new database platform that would dramatically improve experiences for developers, in some fundamental ways: They foresaw that Postgres would become the de facto standard for databases and had the vision to create a serverless Postgres plat ... Read full article.