Most enterprise AI still treats data access the way it did in 2017: read the data, then let a person or batch process decide what to do with it. In this ODBMS interview, Volt Active Data President and CEO David Flower explains why agentic AI breaks that pattern and makes ACID guarantees non-negotiable rather than a nice-to-have. He walks through why concurrent agents reading and writing the same state reintroduce classic consistency problems, how Volt’s sub-10ms transactions compare honestly to Spanner, Aurora, CockroachDB, and YugabyteDB, and why most production AI failures trace back to stale state rather than model quality.
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