Reynold Xin

@rxin

Cofounder @Databricks

San Francisco, CA

rxin.org

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Reynold Xin
@rxin
Jul 1
I find the Lakebase design for serverless Postgres very elegant, so I spent some time explaining how it works in this blog. The blog starts by explaining how databases really persist data (with a write-ahead-log and data files that are updated async), and how Lakebase separates
From monolith to Lakebase to LTAP: rethinking the database from storage up | Databricks Blog
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Reynold Xin
@rxin
May 28
The future of databases is being built directly on top of object stores. We call this the Lakebase architecture. For a long time, the industry treated data lakes strictly as analytical or offline storage. But the Lakebase architecture is changing that by enabling true
Why We Built Vector Lakebase: Rethinking Unstructured Data Architecture for AI - Zilliz blog
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Reynold Xin
@rxin
May 20
Oracle has spent the last two weeks writing articles comparing Oracle (and PDB) to Lakebase, and it highlights a massive philosophical divide in how we view databases in the agentic era. They are trying to retrofit heavy, traditional architectures for AI. We believe Lakebase are
Neon — Postgres backends for apps and agents
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Reynold Xin
@rxin
Feb 17
Instead of configuring the Cursor agent from scratch, you can now install the Databricks plugin once and use it to build custom applications that query production data.
Cursor
@cursor_ai
Feb 17
Extend Cursor with plugins, now available in our marketplace.
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Reynold Xin
@rxin
Dec 18, 2025
Yesterday we talked about how we got to $1B revenue run rate for our data warehousing business with Lakehouse. Today, we are excited to announce a whole suite of improvements for Lakebase: ⚡ Autoscaling that dynamically adjusts compute based on load 🕛 Scale to zero, allowing
Lakebase Holiday Update | Databricks Blog
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