Databricks Launches LTAP: A Unified OLAP/OLTP Data Architecture

> The New Data Foundation for the Agentic Era

Look, this announcement seemed exciting, but I'm significantly less excited when I come across a completely unrelated tie-in to AI.

It breaks the illusion, and I'm reminded that it's just another PR announcement, and this is probably not going to impact my life at all in any way ever. So I'm off to the next article instead of reading any more.

Curious how is the final format of the data in LTAP storage - is it columnar? If so then what happens to OLTP performance - the blog and all info speaks to OLAP performance but what about your app

Lakebase + Lakehouse = Lake

No benchmarks, no pricing, no examples..