Why is AI still such a struggle? The answer is layers deep.

AI
Apache Kafka®
PostgreSQL®
ClickHouse®
OpenSearch®
Cloud data platform
Demo

Tuesday August 18, 2026
9am PDT | 12pm EDT

Most data architectures were built for people reading dashboards, not autonomous agents calling tools and making decisions on their own. But AI often still runs on that same infrastructure, leading to high token costs, slow responses, and answers nobody quite trusts.

In this session, we're showing something different. Real-time data, transactional data, analytics, caching, search, and governance, all under one control plane and reachable by agents through MCP, an open protocol.

Each layer is genuine open source, with no proprietary forks or vendor lock-in, all under one operating model across any cloud. That means fewer integration headaches and none of the patching, scaling, and upgrade grind that comes with trying to maintain a heavyweight system yourself.

We'll show it running live, end to end and close with an early look at Aiven Runtime, a new environment for running agents and applications alongside your operational data.