In the past, we judged enterprise databases by how useful they were to people like us. We rated them on how well they helped architects create schemas, DBAs plan capacity, and analysts build queries.
We expected databases to last a long time — years, probably — powering sales reports and quarterly projections, growing with the organization.
“But now comes a new kind of user: the AI agent. It has different needs. It operates at a different pace. It uses databases to do its work. But once its task is complete, the database can be…
