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Co-founder and CEO, Databricks · Jun 12, 2025 · Post, A New Era of Databases: Lakebase (co-authored)

Every piece of software in the world, every application, every workflow, every AI-generated line of code ultimately depends on a database underneath. Along the way, we’ve completely reinvented how applications are built, but the underlying databases have changed very little since the 1980s.

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Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO, Databricks
Where
A New Era of Databases: Lakebase (co-authored)
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Data
Company
Databricks
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databricks.com/blog/what-is-a-lakebase

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