# Scaling AI Agents: PostgreSQL vs CockroachDB Under High-Concurrency Workloads

DevFeed: [Scaling AI Agents: PostgreSQL vs CockroachDB Under High-Concurrency Workloads](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/scaling-ai-agents-postgresql-vs-cockroachdb-under-high-concurrency-workloads-23813.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cockroachlabs.com/blog/scaling-ai-agents-database-concurrency>)

Author: Tushar Ghotikar

Published: 2026-04-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: comparison

Language: en

Sources: [Cockroach Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cockroach-labs.md>)

Topics: [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [CockroachDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cockroachdb.md>), [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/concurrency.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Cockroach Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cockroach-labs.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [cockroach-labs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cockroach-labs.md>), [cockroachdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cockroachdb.md>), [concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrency.md>), [concurrent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrent.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [parallel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/parallel.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [retry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retry.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [vs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vs.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how autonomous agents create database workloads that are chatty, concurrent, retry-heavy, and elastic. It describes an evaluation of PostgreSQL and CockroachDB under concurrent workloads involving thousands of autonomous agents, but the supplied excerpt does not include the evaluation results.

## Source excerpt

Autonomous agents behave fundamentally differently from humans or "faster users," and that difference reshapes the demands placed on your database.