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HOW LAKEBASE ARCHITECTURE DELIVERS 5X FASTER POSTGRES WRITES

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Lakebase architecture by Databricks achieves a five-fold increase in Postgres write speed by separating compute and storage layers, which eliminates the "Full Page Write" bottleneck and offloads tasks like crash-recovery. These global optimizations reduce log traffic by 94% and improve read speeds by half.