Databricks acquires Neon, the serverless Postgres specialist

2025-05-14 · Publisher : Databricks · Domain : Cloud & DevOps

Databricks announces the acquisition of Neon, a serverless Postgres platform. Neon reports that AI agents now create more than 80% of the databases launched on its platform, up from 30%.

### Background On 14 May 2025, **Databricks** announced an agreement to acquire **Neon**, a developer-focused **serverless Postgres** platform. The price is not given in the announcement. Neon's founding team includes Nikita Shamgunov (former SingleStore CEO), Heikki Linnakangas (a Postgres committer for twenty years) and Stas Kelvich. Databricks promises to keep supporting Neon's customers and to say more at the Data + AI Summit, on 9-12 June 2025. ### Key facts - Architecture: storage is decoupled from compute, which allows fast provisioning, elastic scaling and database branching and copy features. - Neon's observation: AI agents were creating four times more databases than humans; their share rose from 30% to over 80% of databases created. - Databricks puts Neon's technology at the service of AI applications and agents, beyond its analytics offering. - A month later, Databricks presents Lakebase, a managed Postgres built on this technology. ### Why it matters Two data players, Databricks and then Snowflake (with Crunchy Data, mid-2025), bought a Postgres specialist back to back: the boundary between operational database and analytics platform is blurring. For architects, agentic AI projects could generate ephemeral databases en masse, with governance and cost consequences to anticipate. ### Takeaway The Neon acquisition makes serverless Postgres a component of Databricks' data platform.

Tags : Données, Acquisition, Serverless, Agents