AI agents revive interest in PostgreSQL as 80% of enterprise databases go agent-built

Databricks says AI agents now spin up 80% of enterprise databases, with PostgreSQL emerging as the default engine for agent-generated applications. pgEdge CEO Phillip Merrick credits its extensible architecture and pgvector for retrieval workloads.

• Databricks: AI agents create 80% of enterprise databases
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• pgvector stores vectors alongside regular data for RAG
• pgEdge builds Starfleet and AI DBA Workbench for database ops