{"id":33254,"date":"2026-04-22T19:19:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/?p=33254"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:20:48","slug":"ai-native-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/ko\/blog\/ai-native-database\/","title":{"rendered":"TiDB and the Rise of the AI-Native Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This post originally appeared on The New Stack and is republished with permission. The original version is available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/tidb-and-the-rise-of-the-ai-native-database\/\">\uc5ec\uae30<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Takeaways\"><\/span>Key Takeaways<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Data infrastructure, not models, will define AI-era competitive advantage.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AI agents are becoming the primary database users. At Manus, they created 90%+ of new instances, 99% single-use.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Extreme multi-tenancy is now core. TiDB supports millions of logical tenants with SQL as the agent interface.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pricing must shift from per-instance to usage-based. Agent workloads break conventional database economics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>When enterprises talk about artificial intelligence, the attention usually points to models: larger parameters, faster inference, cheaper tokens. But we at next-gen database maker PingCAP contend that this framing misses the most consequential change now under way in this sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the AI era, data infrastructure &#8212; not AI models &#8212; will define the new competitive advantage. This parallels the development of databases themselves, which are undergoing their own fundamental transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That belief is shaping the evolution of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/ko\/tidb\/\">\ud2f0DB<\/a>, our distributed open-source SQL database also described as an AI-native database. This is designed not only to store data at scale but to support millions (yes, <em>millions<\/em>) of autonomous AI agents creating, querying, and discarding databases at machine speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top-tier large language models eventually will be available to everyone. What will differentiate companies is not the model; it\u2019s the data, and how efficiently you and your AI agents can use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For enterprise applications using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/ko\/ai\/\">agentic AI<\/a>, &#8220;the real bottleneck is not the raw size of the underlying model but its ability to remember, retrieve, and reuse the right information at the right time,&#8221; co-author Blaize Stewart and I wrote in our recent report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/library\/view\/agentic-ai-data\/0642572250140\/\">&#8220;Agentic AI Data Architectures: How Distributed SQL Unifies Enterprise Scale and AI-Native Application Design,&#8221;<\/a> published by O&#8217;Reilly Media, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Physical memory is the key to all of this. &#8220;If memory is what grants agents the capacity to act with persistence and purpose, then infrastructure is what determines whether that capacity can endure,&#8221; we wrote. &#8220;Memory cannot be left to chance or patched together from tools that were never intended to sustain it \u2026 Just as no chef can serve reliably in a kitchen without order, equipment, and flow, no agent can serve effectively without an environment built for memory.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_Big_Data_to_Personal_Data_at_Massive_Scale\"><\/span><strong>From Big Data to Personal Data at Massive Scale<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For more than 20 years, enterprise scalability meant consolidating data into centralized systems: private storage arrays, Hadoop systems, then cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake or Databricks. That model assumed humans were the primary consumers of data and that schemas, queries, and workloads were carefully designed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI changes that assumption entirely. In the agent-driven world we describe, every person &#8212; and every enterprise customer &#8212; can have their own AI agents operating over their own data context. These agents don\u2019t wait for centralized pipelines or curated datasets. They operate continuously, dynamically, and independently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past, we didn\u2019t have the computing power to extract value from everyone\u2019s personal data. Now we do. Everyone will have an AI agent sitting on top of their own data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That change has enormous implications for databases, For example, data is never discarded; it\u2019s retained indefinitely. Schemas diverge rather than converge, and scale is measured not in terabytes, but in the number of databases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_AI_Agents_Become_the_Primary_Database_Users\"><\/span><strong>When AI Agents Become the Primary Database Users<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of our most striking observations is that humans are no longer the primary users of databases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In newer AI-native startups &#8212; including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/ko\/case-study\/manus-agentic-ai-database-tidb\/\">Manus<\/a>, an emerging AI agent platform recently acquired by Meta with which we work closely &#8212; databases are created, queried, and destroyed entirely by AI agents, often without any direct human interaction. These are not developers writing careful SQL code anymore. Agents are goal-driven. They try many approaches, write fragments of queries, test possibilities, and discard databases when the task is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That behavioral change creates workloads databases were never designed to handle; such as millions of tiny, short-lived database instances; extremely high metadata churn; bursty, unpredictable access patterns; and cost sensitivity at unprecedented scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Manus\u2019 case, agents, not humans, created more than 90% of newly created database instances, and roughly 99% were one-time-use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_Conventional_Databases_Break_Under_Agent_Scale\"><\/span><strong>Why Conventional<\/strong> <strong>Databases Break Under Agent Scale<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Conventional databases, even cloud-hosted MySQL or PostgreSQL, struggle under this model. The economics alone are prohibitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If every agent creates a $5-per-month database instance, no one can afford this. Within three months, Manus created close to 1 million database tenants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The real bottleneck, however, isn\u2019t storage \u2013 it\u2019s metadata management. Most of these databases are tiny. The challenge is not storing data; it\u2019s tracking and managing millions of database instances. This is where <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.pingcap.com\/tidb\/stable\/tidb-architecture\/\">TiDB\u2019s architecture<\/a> becomes so important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"TiDB_as_a_Virtualized_Massively_Multi-Tenant_Database_Layer\"><\/span><strong>TiDB as a Virtualized, Massively Multi-Tenant Database Layer<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than spinning up a physical database for each agent task, we&#8217;re evolving TiDB into a virtualized database layer, where logical tenants are isolated but share underlying infrastructure. Extreme multi-tenancy is no longer a nice-to-have &#8212; it\u2019s the core requirement. We\u2019re not talking about thousands of tenants anymore. We\u2019re talking about millions, or hundreds of millions, at very low cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TiDB\u2019s distributed architecture, SQL compatibility, and separation of compute and storage make this possible. It enables fast creation and teardown of logical databases; efficient metadata handling at scale; elastic resource<s> <\/s>-sharing across workloads; and SQL as a stable interface for AI agents. The stable interface is the key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite decades of predictions to the contrary, we remain convinced that SQL will remain the dominant interface for AI-driven data access. SQL is still the language for AI; agents use it because it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Cost_Model_Has_to_Change_Radically\"><\/span><strong>The Cost Model Has to Change, Radically<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Agent-driven infrastructure doesn\u2019t just break databases &#8212; it breaks pricing models. We had to invent an entirely new pricing approach for Manus, abandoning per-instance or per-tenant pricing in favor of usage-based, aggregate consumption models. We cannot price per database or per agent. Most of them exist for minutes or hours, then disappear.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This reality reflects a broader truth about AI-native systems: Efficiency at scale matters more than individual optimization. AI agents are vastly more productive than humans, but that productivity can turn into runaway costs without architectural discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Full-Stack_AI_Experiences_Without_Technical_Users\"><\/span><strong>Full-Stack AI Experiences Without Technical Users<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One reason we find Manus compelling is that it pushes the database entirely out of sight. In Manus\u2019 latest iteration, a user can ask by voice to create a website, analyze data, or build an application. The AI agent then<s> <\/s>interprets the request; writes the code as needed; provisions all the infrastructure; spins up databases; executes tasks; and tears everything down when finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No technical background is required. Users don\u2019t manage databases, and they won\u2019t manage servers. The AI handles it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the future TiDB must support: databases as invisible, ephemeral infrastructure, operating at LLM (large language model) scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Database_Market_Is_Entering_a_New_Era\"><\/span><strong>The Database Market Is Entering a New Era<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We believe the database sector is at the start of its next major transition, on par with the rise of the cloud itself. In three years, we won\u2019t be a single-product company. You\u2019ll see MySQL-compatible, PostgreSQL-compatible systems, maybe even file-system-based storage for agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What ties them together is the same core idea: Databases must be designed for AI agents first, humans second. In that world, TiDB\u2019s evolution &#8212; from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/ko\/blog\/why-distributed-sql-databases-elevate-modern-app-dev\/\">distributed SQL database<\/a> to AI-scale data platform &#8212; offers a preview of what enterprise data infrastructure may soon look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to compete in the AI era, the best strategy is simple: Store everything. And make it usable at machine speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ed Huang and Blaize Stewart expand this thesis in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/ko\/ebook-whitepaper\/oreilly-report-agentic-ai-data-architectures\/\">Agentic AI Data Architectures<\/a><em>, published by O&#8217;Reilly. 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