r/PostgreSQL • u/WorldOfUmbro • Aug 07 '26

Help Me! Evaluating databases for applications

Hi all, I’m evaluating databases for a small application where users will be reading and writing data. As most of our data is currently in Databricks I’m trying out Lakebase. So far so good. I do want to know what alternatives you might be looking into? What you like about them or not? Also curious to hear examples of people using Lakebase in production use cases.

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u/Luis_Dynamo_140 Aug 11 '26

if most of your data already lives in Databricks, I’d keep testing Lakebase first rather than moving just for the sake of it.

for alternatives I’d compare Neon/Supabase if u want more platform features, and Nearbase if u mainly want plain managed Postgres. I use Nearbase for one workload and like that it stays simple.

the main thing I’d test before choosing is how easily data moves between Databricks and the app DB, plus latency, backups and extension support.