Databricks is acquiring Electric, the company behind PGlite and a real-time sync engine, giving every AI agent its own lightweight Postgres database in its sandbox that synchronizes with Lakebase. Electric builds data primitives for agentic applications, including a WASM version of Postgres small enough to run within the application or agent, plus a sync engine that brings distributed state back to a central database. Databricks reasons that agents behave differently from traditional software: while a classic application handles predefined queries and predictable data patterns, an agent determines at runtime which data it needs, sometimes multiple times per second, requiring data within the same process. Agents often work in groups in sandboxes where the database is accessible only via a network connection to the cloud. The deal follows Databricks’ acquisition of Neon last year for over a billion dollars, laying a foundation for Lakebase, launched in February. There is a direct technical connection: PGlite is built on the WASM Postgres work of Stas Kelvich, co-founder of Neon. Databricks applies this within its LTAP architecture, which breaks down the barrier between OLTP and OLAP. Lakebase delivers Postgres at production scale, PGlite runs in the agent’s sandbox, and the sync engine keeps both in sync, allowing developers to build on a single Postgres standard while control remains centralized on low-cost, sustainable object storage.