Together, Lakebase and Electric extend Databricks' Postgres capabilities from the lakehouse to the edge
by Stas Kelvich, Yan Leshinsky, Nikita Shamgunov and Reynold Xin
Today, we’re excited to welcome Electric to Databricks. The world is building a new era of agentic applications which require distributed state and real-time data synchronization between teams of agents working in sandboxes. Electric is leading the way in pioneering data primitives purpose-built for agents: PGlite gives every agent its own lightweight Postgres right where it runs, providing ultra-low latency access to local context, and Electric’s real-time sync engine synchronizes distributed state back to a central Lakebase, enabling teams of agents to collaborate without losing track of shared context. That vision now continues at Databricks as we bring WASM Postgres to AI agent sandboxes, extending Databricks’ Postgres capabilities from the lakehouse to the edge.
Agents don’t behave like traditional applications
Developers are moving from building traditional apps to building agentic applications, and the assumptions underlying traditional infrastructure are shifting with them. A traditional application has a known shape: its queries are written in advance, its data access patterns are predictable, and it runs in a place its architects chose. One managed Postgres database serves it well.
