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Databricks Acquires Electric to Give Every AI Agent its Own Postgres (AlphaSignal)
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Databricks is acquiring ElectricSQL to embed a full Postgres inside every AI-agent sandbox, syncing local state back to its Lakebase platform.
In plain words
- Databricks is buying ElectricSQL to give each artificial intelligence worker its own Postgres database, a structured store for information.
- The database will run inside each worker's separate computer space and synchronize its stored information with Databricks' Lakebase online service.
- This could help teams keep each worker's information separate while making it available through a shared online system.
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