EnterpriseDB (EDB), a provider of sovereign data and artificial intelligence infrastructure, has acquired Altinity, a company specializing in enterprise software, managed services, and support for the open-source ClickHouse analytical database. The transaction expands EDB’s Postgres AI platform by combining transactional database capabilities with real-time analytics and infrastructure designed for autonomous AI agents.
The acquisition brings together expertise in PostgreSQL and ClickHouse, two open-source database technologies serving different enterprise workloads.
PostgreSQL is widely used to manage transactional data, while ClickHouse is designed to analyze large volumes of information with low latency.
Traditionally, organizations have operated transactional and analytical databases separately, requiring data pipelines and integrations to move information between systems.
EDB intends to reduce that complexity by connecting both technologies through its Postgres AI platform, also known as PG AI.
The company believes the combination will help organizations develop AI applications that can access current business information, perform analytical operations, and execute authorized tasks without relying on highly fragmented data architectures.
Founded in 2017, Altinity develops enterprise tools and services for operating ClickHouse software in production environments.
Its customers include The Trade Desk, Tubi, Kong, AppsFlyer, ZoomInfo, and PostHog.
Altinity’s products include Stable Builds, which provide long-term support and FIPS-compatible software for regulated environments, and Antalya Builds, which offer capabilities involving storage, authorization, and data lake integration.
The company’s Kubernetes Operator has accumulated more than 108 million Docker Hub pulls, reflecting adoption of its database deployment technology.
Altinity.Cloud also enables customers to deploy and operate analytical databases within their own cloud accounts.
Following the acquisition, Altinity’s engineering team will join EDB’s PostgreSQL contributors and maintainers.
The combined organization plans to continue contributing to both open-source communities while developing a unified product roadmap.
EDB intends to introduce integrated enterprise ClickHouse capabilities during the fourth quarter of 2026.
Its roadmap includes a shared Apache Iceberg catalog and consistent access controls across PostgreSQL and ClickHouse environments.
The architecture is designed to support transactional workloads, real-time analytics, data lakehouses, and AI agent operations through a common governance framework.
EDB also plans to support several deployment models, including bring-your-own-cloud environments, developer cloud services, self-hosted infrastructure, and disconnected edge deployments.
The company is emphasizing customer control over data, infrastructure, permissions, and AI operations as part of its sovereign AI strategy.
Existing Altinity customers will continue receiving their current software and support services during the integration.
The acquisition positions EDB to address enterprise demand for integrated data infrastructure as organizations move from AI experimentation toward production systems capable of acting on live business information.
KEY QUOTES
“We are witnessing a fundamental architectural reset. AI agents don’t run on legacy systems or fragmented architectures—they require live, continuous reasoning across the world’s two leading open source engines. EDB is providing the foundational AI data system that allows every enterprise on Earth to own its data, own its intelligence, and control its own destiny. Having these two engines together in one multi-model data layer radically reduces costs for customers. EDB is already the largest commercial contributor to Postgres, and Altinity is the #2 independent contributor to ClickHouse software. Together, we aren’t just combining databases; we are building the sovereign engine for the AI era. Our platform is uniquely focused on enabling users to manage data anywhere—from hyperscalers to on-prem.”
Kevin Dallas, CEO Of EnterpriseDB
“Joining EDB allows us to continue meeting our customers’ needs while delivering new capabilities across AI, bring-your-own-cloud deployments, open lakehouse architectures, and real-time analytics. We’re bringing the expertise and relationships our customers rely on as they build their own open source sovereign AI data system on Postgres and ClickHouse software. Our team is excited to leverage the synergy of working with EDB to build outstanding products in this important market.”
Robert Hodges, CEO Of Altinity
“Enterprise data architecture has long separated systems that run the business from systems that analyze it. Agentic AI is putting pressure on that divide, because a single workflow may need to transact, analyze, and act on the same business context.”
Devin Pratt, Research Director At IDC
