Lakebase Autoscaling

Lakebase Autoscaling was renamed - Databricks now calls it Lakebase, as of August 2026.

Lakebase Provisioned → Lakebase Autoscaling → Lakebase

The second version of Lakebase, organising Postgres into projects and branches on elastic compute with autoscaling, scale-to-zero, branching, and instant restore, shipped alongside the original provisioned product as a separate app.

• Compute comes in CUs of 2 GB each, and the spread itself is capped: the maximum minus the minimum cannot exceed 16 CU, so you can autoscale wide but not infinitely wide. 🔗
• Its own release notes no longer contain its name - the October 30, 2025 entry that launched it now reads 'Lakebase (Beta)', arriving as a new app 'separate from the existing Lakebase Public Preview'. 🔗
• New projects arrive with native Postgres password authentication switched off, so the classic password-in-the-connection-string has to be deliberately opted back into. 🔗

⚠ Limitations: Autoscaling compute has bounds: computes autoscale only up to 64 CU (128 GB), the gap between the configured minimum and maximum cannot exceed 16 CU, and changing that minimum or maximum can briefly interrupt active connections. 🔗

Category

Data engineering

In use from

October 2025🔗

Renamed

August 2026🔗

Also known as

Lakebase (Autoscaling Beta), Lakebase (Beta), Lakebase projects, postgres_projects

Verified

2026-09-10