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NeonNikita Shamgunov3 min readintro

Electric is joining team Neon at Databricks

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Summary

Databricks announced that the Electric team, creators of the WASM‑compiled Postgres engine PGlite and a real‑time sync layer, is joining Neon. The integration adds an embedded Postgres database and continuous sync primitive to Neon’s platform, aiming to lower compute costs for small, agent‑driven apps.

  • PGlite is a full Postgres compiled to WebAssembly that runs inside browsers, serverless functions, and sandboxed agents.
  • Weekly downloads of PGlite grew from 1 M to 13 M in the past year, showing rapid adoption.
  • Electric’s sync engine continuously synchronizes a central Postgres database with client environments like browser tabs, mobile apps, and sandboxed agents.
  • The integration adds these primitives to Neon alongside Lakebase Postgres, Auth, Storage, Functions, and the AI Gateway.

Engineers building serverless, edge, or agent‑driven applications should care because the combined Neon‑Electric stack offers an embedded WASM Postgres and real‑time sync primitive that reduces infrastructure overhead.

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