Every Data & SQL comparison and buyer's guide for building AI agents — 4 pieces and counting. Each is a head-to-head or a “best X for Y” roundup with a sources-backed verdict.
For a year the pattern was 'put an MCP server in front of your data.' Snowflake inverted it: the warehouse now hosts the server itself, with per-user OAuth and your existing row policies as the guardrail. The strategic read for founders — data gravity now includes agent-tool gravity.
3 min
Mem0's July releases fixed injection holes in PGVector, Azure MySQL, Neptune, OpenSearch, and Elasticsearch. The real lesson isn't 'upgrade mem0' — it's that the filters your agent hands to its memory compile to live database queries.
4 min
Top systems clear 90% on academic SQL benchmarks and 30–60% on real enterprise warehouses. The gap isn't the model's syntax — it's your schema. And the leaderboards are half wrong.
4 min
The hard part of letting an agent query your database is not the model that writes the SQL. It is feeding that model your schema. Three open-source projects bet on that, and one fine-tuned model bets against it.
5 min