Lakebase: The OLTP Engine for Intelligent Applications

Databricks is the most optimized platform for data and analytics, including Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). However, several use cases require sub-second data latency, in which case Lakehouse data must be moved to a low-latency online transactional processing (OLTP) database to serve online applications. In the past, organizations have adopted a strategy of copying data from Delta Lake into a separate OLTP database like Azure SQL Database, Amazon Aurora, or GCP Cloud SQL. The purpose was to enable building applications on top of the OLTP database to serve low-latency queries and write to it.