ClickHouse expands with Xata deal into Postgres & AI

ClickHouse has expanded its platform and acquired Xata, broadening its reach into Postgres, observability and security.

The changes are intended to bring together systems that are often run separately as businesses increase their use of AI agents and data-heavy applications.

The expansion adds four areas to the core of the platform: transactional database services through ClickHouse Managed Postgres, observability tools, security products and AI engineering tools.

Its observability and security products draw on technology from RunReveal, which ClickHouse acquired earlier. The AI engineering element includes Langfuse, the open-source platform it had already bought. Langfuse now adds an AI Gateway intended to give organisations more oversight of how AI models are used across applications.

The Xata acquisition is intended to strengthen the managed Postgres offering. The deal will let developers branch and clone databases quickly, creating isolated Postgres environments for development and testing, while also supporting work on a separate tier for AI agents.

That matters because AI agents can create uneven and unpredictable patterns of database activity as they query and test multiple systems. ClickHouse is positioning its platform as a way to handle those workloads in one environment rather than through several separate tools.

ClickHouse now serves more than 5,000 customers. It counts DoorDash, Ramp, Meta, Tesla, Cisco and Visa among organisations using its platform for data-intensive workloads.

Workload shift

ClickHouse argues that businesses face rising cost and operational complexity as AI workloads spread across analytics, transactions, monitoring and security. By combining those functions on the same underlying system, it is seeking to challenge established suppliers that serve those categories individually.

Managed Postgres is now generally available in ClickHouse Cloud, according to the company. ClickHouse Observability is in public beta, while ClickHouse Security is in private preview. The Langfuse AI Gateway is also in public beta.

Further additions tied to the Xata deal, including instant database branching, cloning and scale-to-zero environments, have not yet been released. ClickHouse is also laying the groundwork for a dedicated product tier aimed at AI agents.

Customer use

Some customers are already using ClickHouse across more than one workload. Mercado Libre, which ClickHouse described as Latin America's leading commerce and fintech platform, uses it for observability and processes 400 million spans per minute on the system.

ClickHouse said Mercado Libre has seen query speeds improve by 75 times and compression reach about 89%, reducing infrastructure costs. Physical Intelligence is also using the platform as it works on general-purpose AI for robotics.

One customer described the appeal of using a single foundation across multiple tasks.

"Building robotics foundation models means making sense of billions of annotations and telemetry records," said Karan Dhabalia, Engineer, Physical Intelligence.

"We started with ClickHouse for observability, then expanded into real-time analytics, Postgres and AI development with Langfuse. This shared foundation simplifies operations and helps our researchers develop better models. With ClickHouse Security now in private preview, we're excited to see the platform grow," said Dhabalia.