Enterprise alert: PostgreSQL just became the database you can’t ignore for AI applications
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Summary
Snowflake is acquiring PostgreSQL provider Crunchy Data for $250m, just two weeks after rival Databricks acquired a similar firm.
The acquisitions highlight the importance of PostgreSQL to modern enterprise data and AI workflows, with many seeing the open-source database as a de facto standard for developers.
Snowflake’s acquisition of Crunchy will look to combine the company’s Postgres capabilities with Snowflake’s data platform to simplify the building, deployment and scaling of AI agents and applications.
PostgreSQL is increasingly popular with developers for agentic AI, as well as being a solid bedrock for enterprise users, with Google, Amazon, Microsoft and many others already supporting it.