The database ecosystem has been going through a tectonic shift. Since last year, Postgres has been gaining popularity while MySQL is seeing a decline, with cloud providers prompt in building extensions within their offerings to provide Postgres services natively, connecting different databases.
The latest example is Databricks announcing that LakeFlow Connect is available for public preview for SQL Server, Salesforce, and Workday. This would allow the ingestion of data from different databases and enterprise apps. The platform is also native to Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform, allowing both serverless compute and Unity Catalog governance.
“Ultimately, this means organisations can spend less time moving their data and more time getting value from it,” read the announcement blog, which listed the problems associated with connecting external sources like an increased extraction time and data preparation.
At the sideline of the Databricks’ Data+AI Summit 2024, CEO Ali Ghodsi said that two years ago, when he asked his customers if they …