Databricks, Snowflake, Google back Postgres for AI

Lakehouse vendors and major cloud providers are increasingly adopting PostgreSQL as the database engine for AI applications due to its permissive licensing, extensible ecosystem, and widespread developer familiarity. Through extensions like pgvector and pg_duckdb, Postgres can handle operational state, vector search, and analytical queries within a single system, though vendors still face limitations in scale-out writes and massive analytical scans. Open article →