Agents Reshape Database Design For Ephemeral Workloads

A tech analysis argues AI agents are becoming primary database users and will force enterprise databases to prioritize speed, elastic ephemerality, and isolation. It cites architectures separating compute and storage—such as TiDB X using cloud object storage—plus serverless branching in TiDB Cloud and Manus’s agentic workloads. These examples show needs for rapid scale-up/scale-down, cached hot data, and copy-on-write isolation to protect production systems.