Databricks acquires Electric to give every AI agent its own Postgres database

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    "url": "https://thenewstack.io/databricks-electric-wasm-agentic-postgres/",
    "title": "Databricks acquires Electric to give every AI agent its own Postgres database - The New Stack",
    "excerpt": "Databricks on Tuesday announced that it’s acquiring Electric, the startup behind the WASM-based Postgres project PGlite and the Electric sync engine, as agentic applications change how developers use databases. The Electric team will join Neon, the serverless Postgres company Databricks acquired for about $1 billion last year and the foundation of its Lakebase database service. The companies didn’t disclose the terms of the deal. PGlite is a complete Postgres database in WebAssembly (WASM). It runs in the browser, a Node.js process, or inside the kind of sandboxes agents use to execute code. It supports dynamic extension loading, including pgvector, the preferred Postgres vector extension. According to the companies, PGlite has grown from 1 million to 13 million weekly downloads over the last year. It’s the Electric sync engine that is core to Databrick’s interest in Electric, though. This engine keeps a central Postgres database that can then be synced in near real-time with browser tabs, mobile apps, or agents. As Databricks notes, this is the multiplayer model of Figma or Google Docs, but applied to Postgres and the agents that use it. The Neon team, in its own announcement , notes that “complex problems like conflict resolution, partial replication, and reconnection logic make real-time sync difficult to build from scratch.” Hence why Databricks likely acquired Electric...",
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