Data + AI Summit 2026: Iceberg v3 and Lakebase disaster recovery from Databricks

2026-06-16 · Publisher : Databricks · Domain : Cloud & DevOps

At the Data + AI Summit (15-18 June), Databricks announces Iceberg v3 and managed Iceberg generally available in Unity Catalog, a Unity AI Gateway and cross-cloud disaster recovery for Lakebase, its serverless Postgres.

What changes

  • Iceberg v3 and managed Iceberg generally available in Unity Catalog.
  • Unity AI Gateway: governance of models, agents, MCP servers and tools.
  • Lakebase (serverless Postgres): cross-cloud disaster recovery and Git-style branching.
  • Genie One launched on 16 June; Panther reported as an acquisition, per a secondary recap.

### What changes From 15 to 18 June 2026, **Databricks** held its **Data + AI Summit** in San Francisco. On 16 June, the vendor published details of the **Unity Catalog** news and launched **Genie One**, presented as an "agentic coworker" for business teams. The announcements cover AI governance, semantic context and format openness. ### Key facts - **Iceberg v3** and **managed Iceberg** generally available in Unity Catalog; external access to managed Delta tables in public preview; geospatial types generally available for Delta and Iceberg v3. - **Unity AI Gateway** extends governance to models, agents, MCP servers and tools, in the same place as data. - **Lakebase**, the serverless Postgres born from the Neon acquisition, gains cross-cloud disaster recovery (announced as generally available), Git-style branching through copy-on-write and a beta vector search. - Governance: managed disaster recovery with a "Mission Critical" option, a four-level namespace across accounts and regions, external lineage generally available. - According to an analyst recap, Databricks also announces its intent to acquire Panther, an AI-based SOC platform (secondary source). ### Why it matters Two weeks after Snowflake, Databricks upgrades its offering on the same topics: open formats, AI agent governance, operational Postgres. For architects, the good news is Iceberg v3 availability on both platforms; the point of attention is agent governance (MCP, tools), which adds to data access controls and deserves framing from the first projects. ### Takeaway Databricks and Snowflake converge on Iceberg v3, AI agent governance and operational Postgres.

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Tags : Données, Conférence, Open Source, Agents