LTAP Direct Writes

LTAP Direct Writes is a Databricks data engineering capability, introduced August 2026.

An opt-in option on a Lakebase synced table that writes its bulk loads straight into the storage layer behind the Lakebase branch instead of through the live compute endpoint, so the initial load (and every Snapshot-mode refresh) finishes faster without adding query load.

• It is a checkbox you get exactly one chance to tick - it cannot be added to an existing synced table, so the documented fix is to delete the table and create it again. 🔗
• In Triggered and Continuous modes it accelerates precisely one load, the first; every change after that arrives incrementally instead. 🔗

⚠ Limitations: Off by default and chosen only when a synced table is created (an existing synced table must be deleted and recreated to use it), supported only on Lakebase projects running Postgres 16, 17, or 18, and in Triggered and Continuous modes it accelerates only the initial load. 🔗

Category

Data engineering

Introduced

August 2026🔗

Verified

2026-10-14