Did Databricks buy Neon to halt development?

[tyleralbee]

I hadn't heard of Databricks, but it looks like they do the same thing Neon does. With the sudden, prolonged lack of development, I have to wonder if Databricks bought out Neon to reduce competition. Was this repository abandoned due to its Apache license, and is Neon being developed privately at Databricks?

[rajputomsingh]

There’s no public evidence that Databricks acquired Neon or halted its development.

A slowdown in GitHub activity doesn’t necessarily mean the project is abandoned. In many cases:

active development shifts to private repos/internal branches
focus moves to managed/cloud product features rather than OSS
releases become less frequent but larger

Also, Databricks and Neon operate in adjacent but not identical spaces (data platform vs serverless Postgres), so an acquisition purely to “kill competition” would be unlikely without any public announcement.

If anything, it’s more reasonable to assume development is ongoing but not fully visible in this repo.

[wangxuqi]

I noticed that the Neon official website already advertises support for PG18, but the core repository on GitHub hasn't seen updates in quite a while. I understand that Neon's internal development is likely still actively progressing, but it's a bit concerning that the open-source codebase doesn't seem to reflect that. As someone who values the open-source nature of this project, I sincerely hope the team can continue to sync updates to the public repository. Keeping the open-source code up to date would mean a lot to the community. Looking forward to seeing continued activity here! 🙏

[rajputomsingh]

@wangxuqi I agree with you on the important part: transparency matters. One of the biggest reasons people trusted Neon was because it felt genuinely open and community-driven. Keeping the public repo more closely synced with production progress would definitely strengthen confidence from contributors, self-hosters, and developers building around the ecosystem.

Hopefully the team shares more roadmap visibility and upstream updates going forward.