Database for AI Agents: 5 Evaluation Criteria
Summary
Lakebase meets all five criteria a production-ready AI agent database needs—branch-per-agent isolation, scale-to-zero compute, hybrid search in a single query, ACID guarantees under concurrency, and a unified platform without ETL lag. Superhuman and easyJet's real-world deployments validate the approach against the continuous, concurrent read/write patterns agent memory demands.
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