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Technically dispatch: Why Databricks wanted a database

Technically dispatch: Why Databricks wanted a database

All about their recent $1bn acquisition of Neon

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Jun 03, 2025
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Databricks, your friendly neighborhood purveyor of “Leading Data and AI Solutions for Enterprises” recently bought a small (but beloved) database company called Neon. Neon is a wrapper around PostgreSQL, the most popular production database in the world; their database helps people build bread and butter apps. Meanwhile, Databricks is out there helping …

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