https://community.databricks.com/t5/lakebase-articles/in-our-retail-analytics-project-cpg-domain-lakebase-transformed/m-p/156881#M38 <P>We had ADF pipelines extracting POS data to Snowflake, but needed real-time operational tracking—job statuses, data quality alerts, user audit logs. Traditional RDS/SQL databases created ETL sync nightmares between ops and analytics layers.</P><P>Lakebase solution:<BR />Migrated all those tables to Lakebase Provisioned (serverless Postgres).</P><P>Key wins:<BR />Zero-copy sync: Lakebase tables auto-materialize as Delta Live Tables in lakehouse—no more dual maintenance<BR />Unity Catalog governance: Single access control for ops + analytics teams<BR />Scale-to-zero: It costs us only during pipeline runs (vs. always-on VMs). It has resulted in reducing the cost to the customer.</P> Thu, 14 May 2026 06:30:05 GMT KVNARK 2026-05-14T06:30:05Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/lakebase-articles/in-our-retail-analytics-project-cpg-domain-lakebase-transformed/m-p/156881#M38 <P>We had ADF pipelines extracting POS data to Snowflake, but needed real-time operational tracking—job statuses, data quality alerts, user audit logs. Traditional RDS/SQL databases created ETL sync nightmares between ops and analytics layers.</P><P>Lakebase solution:<BR />Migrated all those tables to Lakebase Provisioned (serverless Postgres).</P><P>Key wins:<BR />Zero-copy sync: Lakebase tables auto-materialize as Delta Live Tables in lakehouse—no more dual maintenance<BR />Unity Catalog governance: Single access control for ops + analytics teams<BR />Scale-to-zero: It costs us only during pipeline runs (vs. always-on VMs). It has resulted in reducing the cost to the customer.</P> Thu, 14 May 2026 06:30:05 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/lakebase-articles/in-our-retail-analytics-project-cpg-domain-lakebase-transformed/m-p/156881#M38 KVNARK 2026-05-14T06:30:05Z