Electric joins Databricks to bring WASM Postgres to AI agent sandboxes
Databricks has acquired Electric to integrate WASM Postgres into AI agent sandboxes, enabling lightweight local databases and real-time synchronization with centralized Lakebase infrastructure.
Databricks announced the acquisition of Electric, a company developing data primitives for AI agent applications. Electric’s PGlite provides a lightweight, embedded Postgres database running within agent sandboxes, enabling ultra-low latency access to local context. The technology has seen rapid adoption, with weekly downloads growing from 1 million to 13 million in a year. This approach addresses the unique needs of agentic applications, which require both fast local execution and real-time synchronization with centralized systems.
Electric’s real-time sync engine ensures distributed agents maintain a shared, up-to-date view of data while preserving local context. The architecture, which powers collaborative tools like Google Docs and Figma, allows agents to work in parallel while securely synchronizing with Databricks’ Lakebase infrastructure. Both Electric and Lakebase are built on Postgres, the open-source database widely adopted for AI agent workloads. The acquisition reunites teams with shared technical foundations, strengthening Databricks’ position in modern database innovation.
The collaboration combines Lakebase’s production-scale Postgres with PGlite’s embedded WASM Postgres, enabling agents to operate with lightweight local databases while maintaining consistency with centralized systems. This integration supports the growing demand for agentic applications, which require distributed state management and real-time data synchronization. Databricks plans to extend Postgres capabilities from the lakehouse to the edge, supporting new classes of distributed applications.
Electric’s founders highlighted the alignment of their vision with Databricks’ goals, emphasizing the potential for customers to build advanced agentic applications. The acquisition follows Electric’s rapid growth and adoption of PGlite, which has become a key enabler for developers building distributed Postgres-based agents. Further details are available on the Neon blog, where Electric’s founders discuss the partnership and its implications for the future of AI agent infrastructure.