Databricks acquires Electric, bringing PGlite and real-time sync to Neon
Questions this post answers
How many weekly downloads does PGlite have?
PGlite grew from 1 million to 13 million weekly downloads over the past year. It started as a proof of concept by Neon co-founder Stas Kelvich and is a full Postgres database compiled to WebAssembly, capable of running in browser tabs, serverless functions, and sandboxes. Developers tracking the PGlite and Neon ecosystem can follow acquisition news and release updates on daily.dev.
What happens to Electric's open source projects after the Databricks acquisition?
All of Electric's previously open-sourced work — the sync engine, PGlite, Durable Streams, and TanStack DB — remains open source. The only casualty is Electric Cloud, the hosted service, which is shutting down. Existing Electric Cloud users will need to self-host or migrate to another solution. Teams depending on Electric Cloud for sync need to plan a migration path — daily.dev is where those announcements will surface first.
How do AI agents use databases differently from humans on Lakebase?
On Lakebase, AI agents create roughly four times more databases than human users. Average database compute lives for under 10 seconds, and some projects run over 500 branch iterations. These are ephemeral, disposable databases spun up constantly — a pattern that favors instant-start WASM-based Postgres over traditional long-lived server databases. Engineers designing database infrastructure for AI agents can track how Neon and Lakebase evolve on daily.dev.