Database vendors pitch themselves as the cure for runaway AI costs
Irresistible force, meet immovable object. Tech leaders are under pressure to satisfy growing demand for AI while keeping a lid on costs.
That is becoming harder as Anthropic, OpenAI, and GitHub shift some services away from flat-rate subscriptions toward usage-based billing. Database vendors claim they can help by cutting the number of calls made to AI models and handling the new workloads generated by developer agents.
According to IDC research director Devin Pratt, "demand for the underlying capability is strong, because agentic adoption is already broad."
Around 79 percent of organizations are either investing significantly in agentic AI with a set budget or already running agentic applications in production, according to IDC.
"The appetite for the data infrastructure beneath it is real," Pratt said. "The open question is whether the specialists win or the capability gets absorbed into the platforms enterprises already run, much as it did with vector...
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