EDB Announces Acquisition of ClickHouse Support Provider Altinity, With Integrated Offerings Planned for Q4 2026 and Terms Not Disclosed

Overview

EnterpriseDB (EDB) announced the acquisition of Altinity on November 5, 2026, according to its PR Newswire release, which describes Altinity as “a leading independent provider of enterprise software, managed services, and support for ClickHouse software.” Both TechTarget and Blocks & Files report that financial terms were not disclosed. EDB plans to introduce integrated enterprise ClickHouse capabilities in the fourth quarter of 2026, per the release, and two analysts quoted by TechTarget say the integration work is still ahead.

What the companies announced

The release says Altinity’s engineers join EDB’s Postgres contributors and maintainers. It lists Altinity as founded in 2017, with customers such as The Trade Desk, Tubi, Kong, AppsFlyer, ZoomInfo and PostHog, and a portfolio of Altinity Stable Builds, Altinity Antalya Builds, the Altinity Kubernetes Operator and Altinity.Cloud. The release puts the Kubernetes Operator at “more than 108 million Docker Hub pulls.”

In Altinity’s own announcement, published the same day, the company says it is now the EDB Real-Time Analytics group, reporting directly to EDB CEO Kevin Dallas. Altinity says customer contracts, SLAs, products and services stay the same and that its management team remains in place.

The release quotes Dallas on the two companies’ standing: “EDB is already the largest commercial contributor to Postgres, and Altinity is the #2 independent contributor to ClickHouse software.” These are EDB’s own characterisations; the sources cited here do not include contribution data behind the ranking.

The release also carries a notice that the software and services it describes are provided by EDB and Altinity, not ClickHouse, Inc., and that Altinity is an independent company not affiliated with ClickHouse, Inc. None of the four cited sources includes a statement from ClickHouse, Inc. about the acquisition.

What EDB says comes next

The release states that the integration road map “includes a shared Apache Iceberg catalog and consistent access controls across Postgres and ClickHouse software.” It says EDB plans to introduce integrated enterprise ClickHouse capabilities in Q4 2026, and that its deployment road map spans four modes: bring-your-own-cloud, a developer cloud, self-hosted or on-premises installations on customer-managed Kubernetes or OpenShift, and a physical far edge for air-gapped, fully disconnected execution. It adds that availability “will be detailed as offerings are introduced.”

As background, Blocks & Files reports that EDB had added analytical workload support so far by extending Postgres with the Postgres Analytics Accelerator and with WarehousePG, an open-source massively parallel processing analytical database forked from Greenplum, and adds its own view that “EDB clearly needs more OLAP capability.” TechTarget reports that EDB first added support for ClickHouse earlier in 2026.

The Machine Herald’s October 26 analysis of Postgres vendors’ transactional-analytical designs relayed an HFS Research analyst’s summary that EDB keeps PostgreSQL as the operational source of truth and exposes data through Iceberg to analytical engines. The Altinity release names a shared Iceberg catalog among the items on its road map.

What analysts say

TechTarget quotes Devin Pratt of IDC saying “EnterpriseDB can now cover both the operational and analytical sides of the estate from one vendor.” TechTarget reports that Pratt noted EDB customers previously had to use databases from other providers for analytical workloads, and that he named competitors such as AWS, Google Cloud, Databricks, Snowflake and independent PostgreSQL providers as also bringing transactional and analytical workloads together. TechTarget reports that Pratt said the acquisition accelerates EDB’s transition toward a unified platform but does not complete it: EDB still has to integrate Altinity’s enterprise ClickHouse capabilities, which TechTarget describes as expected before the start of 2027, and to build the shared Iceberg catalog and access controls. “Altinity adds the analytics engine, [but] integrating it is the real test,” Pratt said, as quoted by TechTarget.

Matt Aslett of ISG told TechTarget: “There will be considerable engineering work to be completed before the company can deliver on that promise.” He added that in the interim the deal lets EDB support the operational and analytic data processing requirements of agentic AI “with two separate environments.” Aslett also placed the deal in the context of ClickHouse, Inc.’s launch of ClickHouse Managed Postgres earlier this year, which he said brought ClickHouse, Inc. into direct competition with EDB, and described Altinity as a direct competitor to ClickHouse, Inc.’s portfolio of software, services and support.

What We Don’t Know

• Price. The sources report no deal value. Blocks & Files notes that Altinity raised $4 million in a 2020 seed round, which says nothing about the purchase price.
• Dates for the shared pieces. TechTarget calls the shared Iceberg catalog and common access controls near-term product development plans, but none of the cited sources gives a date for either.
• Which ClickHouse capabilities arrive in Q4 2026, and on what terms. The release says availability will be detailed as offerings are introduced.
• ClickHouse, Inc.’s position. The cited sources carry no statement from the company beyond the release’s non-affiliation notice.