EnterpriseDB buys Altinity to connect business databases and real-time analytics for AI

EnterpriseDB has acquired Altinity, bringing specialists in running real-time analytics into its effort to connect business records, analysis and AI agents. The deal, announced November 5, 2026, makes Altinity EDB’s Real-Time Analytics group. Customers keep their existing services while EDB works toward integrated capabilities planned for the fourth quarter.

Customer control helped drive the deal

Altinity CEO Robert Hodges described the acquisition as a response to customers building AI systems around growing pools of enterprise data. Those customers want fast insights while keeping data inside their own cloud accounts and data centers, away from attackers and training sets competitors might access, he wrote.

That demand led Altinity toward EDB’s vision of “sovereign” data and AI: systems customers can run and control in their chosen environments. Hodges said the decisive discussion with EDB CEO Kevin Dallas centered on company culture and commitments to customers, staff and open source, rather than technology or sales details.

The technical fit joins two different jobs. PostgreSQL maintains operational business records; ClickHouse software analyzes large volumes of events and business activity. EDB’s stated goal is to bring those functions closer together so applications and agents can understand current conditions and act with less data movement and integration work.

A new reporting line, familiar customer commitments

Altinity now reports directly to Dallas. Hodges says its entire management team remains in place, along with customer contracts, service-level agreements, products and services. Those agreements set the service commitments customers receive. EDB also says existing services and support will continue as the teams advance their shared roadmap.

Founded in 2017, Altinity supplies enterprise software, managed services and support for ClickHouse software. Its portfolio includes long-term-support builds, tools for running databases through Kubernetes, and Altinity.Cloud deployments in customers’ own cloud accounts. EDB names The Trade Desk, Tubi, Kong, AppsFlyer, ZoomInfo and PostHog among Altinity’s customers.

Altinity’s engineers join EDB’s PostgreSQL contributors and maintainers. EDB says the combined team will develop a unified roadmap while continuing contributions to both open-source communities. The purchase is of Altinity, not ClickHouse, Inc.; the announcement explicitly says Altinity is independent of that company and the deal does not imply its endorsement.

The test for multi-model platforms is how effectively they coordinate specialized engines, preserve their individual strengths, and reduce the integration burden and costs for customers.

Devin Pratt, research director at IDC, in EDB’s acquisition announcement

Integration is the next delivery test

EDB plans to introduce integrated enterprise ClickHouse capabilities in Q4 2026. Its roadmap includes a shared Apache Iceberg catalog and consistent access controls across PostgreSQL and ClickHouse. The intended result is a connection between operational records, real-time analysis and data-lake storage that requires less movement of data between systems.

The deployment roadmap covers four environments, rather than a single hosted service:

• Bring-your-own-cloud deployments in customer cloud accounts.
• A developer cloud service.
• Self-hosted infrastructure on customer-managed Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Local hardware for air-gapped, fully disconnected execution.

Across those environments, EDB’s design puts permission checks where the data lives. The company says customers should control what agents can access and do, retain an audit trail and hold the off switch. That is the concrete control model behind its sovereignty pitch, not merely a choice of hosting location.

EDB says capability and deployment availability will be detailed as offerings are introduced. Its Q4 target therefore does not establish that every deployment mode will arrive together. The next concrete step is the introduction of integrated capabilities, with availability details still to come.