ClickHouse acquires Xata to give every AI agent its own Postgres database
ClickHouse is acquiring Xata and folding its copy-on-write branching, instant provisioning, and scale-to-zero compute into ClickHouse Managed Postgres, which hit general availability today. Xata can spin up an isolated branch of a multi-terabyte database in about three seconds, so every pull request or agent run gets production-like data without copying it. Xata customers keep using the service as usual until feature parity arrives, then migrate.
Even if a database has multiple terabytes of data, creating a branch takes only around 3 seconds.
- hasyimibhar
Does this mean we can have scale-to-zero Postgres? One pain we have with Clickhouse Postgres is that we have to pay for dev/staging databases that receive no traffic most of the time.
- te_chris
I’ve gone all in on the clickhouse stack this year and I continue to be extremely impressed. Our product does physical simulation and generates a lot of time series rows per run (a million or so) so we needed something that could do fast time series aggregations. In clickhouse we’ve got one core db that supports that easily, while also being runnable locally in docker compose for dev. They’ve also made smart acquisitions in the otel observability stack, so our o11y is running on another clickhouse db with hyperdx/click stack included. And they acquired langfuse which mostly just works on top of clickhouse as well, so we’re self hosting that for evals etc.
The team has been easy to work with as well. Maybe they’ll get enshittified, I guess that’s inevitable, but it’s good now.
I think they’re a model of a co that will do well through the LLM transition - strong core tech plus useful bits on top that are OSS but can be hosted by them if you want.
- snide
Nice folks on both sides. Congrats team.