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ekoDB — the agentic backend platform. A vertically integrated, AI-native real-time database with a built-in agent runtime that designs, deploys, and operates infrastructure with minimal human intervention.
The backend that builds itself.
Deploy a database and AI agents, describe the backend you want, and they build it. You get real APIs for any frontend, on an AI-native, real-time database.
The agent runtime
Your AI agents live next to your data
Every deployment can run an agent server. Host AI agents with their own tools, goals, scheduled tasks, and memory, all talking directly to your database from the dashboard or your terminal. Run them for your own team, or embed them in your product so your customers can chat with them too.
Chat with your data
Ask questions in plain English. Your agents answer straight from your own collections using ekoDB's native RAG and vector search. There's no separate pipeline to build and no second database to keep in sync.
Agents with goals & tasks
Give each agent a system prompt, scoped tool permissions, goals, and scheduled tasks that run on their own. These are real workflows, not just one-off prompts.
Tools & templates
File operations, web search, HTTP fetch, persistent memory, and reusable templates all come built in. Bring your own OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini key and it stays server-side, never exposed to the client.
It tunes and debugs itself
The agent looks after what it builds. It explains slow queries, spots a missing index and creates it, surfaces which data is hot, and reads the server logs to find problems. The database tuning that usually needs a specialist happens in the conversation.
What is ekoDB?
The next-generation application database - ultra-fast, schema-flexible, real-time capable, and AI Native.
Deploy a database and AI agents that run right next to your data, or run the database on its own with built-in chat, RAG, and vector search.
Yesterday'sdatabasescan'tkeepupwiththeperformanceandfeaturedemandsoftoday'sapplications,butekoDBcan.BuildwithekoDB,andhavedocumentstorage,key-valueoperations,full-textsearch,vectorsearch,andmore,allinonepackage.
But is ekoDB fast?
Unrivaled performance capabilities
Powered by Rust, ekoDB has best-in-class performance across a wide variety of workloads. ekoDB is capable of lightning-fast sub-ms processing across all CRUD operations and significantly outperformed some of the world's most widely-used application databases in industry-standard performance testing. Even with its robust native feature set, ekoDB is one of the fastest and most efficient databases in the world. Read more about ekoDB's remarkable performance here.
How does ekoDB compare?
Outperforming the industry
In industry-standard YCSB performance benchmarking, ekoDB outperformed across every workload.*
*1M records, 64 threads, all databases configured to durable write modes
Composite score across all YCSB workloads (A, B, C, D, F) weighted by throughput (30%), latency (25%), CPU efficiency (25%), and cross-workload consistency (20%). Scores are relative — the best performer in each category receives full marks.
Documents / JSON / Row
Durable mode — all databases with matching fsync settings. ekoDB scores include full auth, encryption, search indexing, and real-time subscription overhead on every operation.
Key-Value
Cache mode — no persistence, pure throughput. ekoDB outperforms Redis (1.4x throughput, 30% lower latency) while carrying JWT auth, AES-GCM encryption, and search indexing that Redis does not provide.
Built-in, not bolted on
Features that require extensions or separate services elsewhere come native with ekoDB.
| Feature | ekoDB | PostgreSQL | MongoDB | MySQL | Redis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built-in AuthApplication-level JWT tokens and API key authentication | JWT + API keys | Roles only | SCRAM only | Roles only | ACL only |
| Per-op EncryptionEvery read and write is encrypted at the operation level | AES-GCM | pgcrypto ext | CSFLE client-side | TDE / app-level | TLS in-transit only |
| Real-time SubsLive data streaming via WebSocket subscriptions | WebSocket | LISTEN/NOTIFY | Change Streams | needs external | Pub/Sub |
| Cross-DB SyncSync data across different database engines in real time | Ripple — Pg, Mongo, Redis | same-DB only | same-DB only | same-DB only | same-DB only |
| Key-Value StoreNative key-value operations alongside documents | Built-in | hstore ext | single-field docs | table workaround | Built-in |
| Document QueriesRich queries on flexible JSON documents | Built-in | JSONB | Built-in | JSON columns | RedisJSON module |
| Tunable DurabilityChoose durability vs speed globally or per operation | Global + per-op | synchronous_commit | Write concern | innodb_flush | appendfsync |
| Full-Text SearchSearch across text fields with ranking and stemming | Built-in | tsvector | Atlas Search | FULLTEXT index | RediSearch module |
| Vector SearchSimilarity search on embeddings for RAG and AI | Built-in | pgvector ext | Atlas only | needs Pinecone | RediSearch module |
| FunctionsRun logic on the server, co-located with your data | Server-side | PL/pgSQL | Atlas only | Stored procs | Lua scripts |
| SWR CachingStale-while-revalidate responses built into the server | Built-in | app-level only | app-level only | app-level only | manual TTL |
| AI ChatQuery your data in natural language with built-in RAG | Native RAG | needs external | Atlas only | needs external | needs external |
All of that in a single, tiny binary
Every feature above ships in one ~50 MB binary — no extensions, no separate processes, no assembly required.
How do I get started?
Deploy ekoDB
Deploy a database and an AI agent in a few minutes, and connect them. The agent runs tools, goals, and scheduled tasks against your data. Prefer just a database? It runs on its own, with built-in AI chat and RAG.
Select a region
ekoDB has worldwide deployment capability. Select a zone to localize your instance and provide the fastest connection for your application.
Pick a machine
Choose from a selection of powerful machines to power your database. From free tier development instances to production-ready hardware, we can match your needs.
Customize your subdomain and environment
Choose any available custom subdomain and select an environment flag — development, testing, staging, or production.
Deploy
Click deploy and get real-time updates as your database spins up. Watch your deployment go from Initializing to Starting to Running — typically in just a few minutes.
AI agents
Deploy an AI agent the same way
Pick the AI Agent module, then connect it to a database you've deployed. The agent runs tools, goals, and scheduled tasks against your data. An agent always works with a database; a database needs nothing else.
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The Team
Do you have feedback or questions for the ekoDB team? We'd love to hear from you! Connect with us on our social networks, or reach out to us by email at contact@ekodb.io!
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