From monolith to Lakebase to LTAP: rethinking the database from storage up

• From: Veronika Franklin | Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:18:33 +0000 #
  Subject: From monolith to Lakebase to LTAP: rethinking the database from storage up

  https://www.databricks.com/blog/lakebase-ltap-rethinking-database-storage Almost every traditional database keeps its write-ahead log and data files on one machine's disk, which is the root cause of data loss risk, expensive read replicas and high-availability clones, and analytics queries that drag down transactions. As we built Databricks, we started using various databases out there, and we realized OLTP databases were far from a solved problem: they were clunky, difficult to scale, and incredibly fragile. We were frustrated enough at some point that we asked ourselves what an OLTP database would look like if we were to design it today. That question led toLakebase, our serverless Postgres database. Read More: https://www.databricks.com/blog/lakebase-ltap-rethinking-database-storage

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