EDB buys Altinity to merge Postgres and ClickHouse for AI workloads
What's the deal? EnterpriseDB (EDB) has acquired AltinityDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a provider of enterprise software, managed services, and support for the ClickHouse database engine. The deal value was undisclosed. It unites expertise in two of the fastest-growing open-source database engines, Postgres and ClickHouse, under EDB's Postgres AI system.
What's the endgame? EDB wants to combine transactional databases with real-time analytics in one system for AI agents, rather than making customers stitch separate tools together. The company says the combination "radically reduces costs for customers." EDB is the largest commercial contributor to Postgres; Altinity is the second-largest independent contributor to ClickHouse.
Who is Altinity? Founded in 2017, it helps enterprises run open-source ClickHouse in production, serving customers such as The Trade Desk, TubiDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Kong, AppsFlyer, ZoomInfo, and PostHog. Its Kubernetes Operator has drawn more than 108 million Docker Hub pulls. Its engineers now join EDB's Postgres contributors.
Why now? Agentic AI is pressuring the long-standing divide between systems that run a business and systems that analyse it. "A single workflow may need to transact, analyze, and act on the same business context," said Devin Pratt, research director at IDC.
What could go wrong? The promised savings and unified experience remain ambitions: the companies say the two engines are not yet integrated, with a shared Iceberg catalog and consistent access controls still on the roadmap. The test, Pratt noted, is whether EDB can coordinate the engines while preserving "their individual strengths."
The signal: Competitive pressure is clear. ClickHouse raised $400 million in January and launched its own integrated Postgres offering; by May it reported more than $250 million in annual recurring revenue and 4,000 customers. EDB's bet is that owning expertise in both engines — rather than bolting one onto the other — wins the AI data layer.
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