Operational databases: How they work and when to use them
Summary
Databricks is introducing the "Lakebase," a new open architecture combining transactional database speed with data lake flexibility and economics, designed to overcome the limitations of traditional operational databases for modern unstructured data and AI workloads. This allows for real-time processing and concurrent transactions directly on the data lake, eliminating slow ETL pipelines and supporting diverse data types.
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