Databricks Acquires Electric to Give Every AI Agent Its Own Postgres Database

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

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. What Databricks…

Databricks buys Electric to power AI agent sandboxes

The deal gives developers a way to keep AI agents working locally in sync with central data, cutting latency in sandboxed apps.