Databricks says it solved the decades-old data pipeline problem that's been slowing AI agents
For decades, data professionals have struggled with the challenge of managing both operational and analytical databases in a unified approach that doesn't introduce latency and performance degradation.
Agents made the problem structural. A system that reasons continuously and acts on live data cannot tolerate a pipeline between itself and the information it needs to act on.
At the Data + AI Summit on Tuesday, Databricks announced two products aimed at collapsing that infrastructure. Lakehouse//RT delivers millisecond query latency directly on governed Delta and Iceberg tables, eliminating the dedicated real-time serving tier that enterprises have maintained alongside their lakehouses. LTAP, short for Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing, stores Postgres-native transactional data in Delta and Iceberg format from the point of write, removing the ETL pipelines that have connected operational and analytical systems for decades.
Reynold Xin, co-founder of Databricks, described a simpler data stack as "the holy grail for agents" in a briefing...
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