PhoenixAI, the Agentic AI Database, today announced a strategic partnership with Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere. PhoenixAI is joining as a foundational data partner for Cloudera's newly launched hybrid data and AI platform, and Cloudera Anywhere Cloud Marketplace.
Announced in Menlo Park, California, enterprise customers can deploy PhoenixAI's high-performance cloud database engine directly within Cloudera's secure private and public cloud environments, bringing sub-second real-time analytics and agentic AI workloads to Cloudera's user base.
As organizations accelerate their adoption of autonomous AI agents and real-time decision-making systems, access to fresh, sub-second enterprise data is critical. PhoenixAI's inclusion in Cloudera's private and sovereign infrastructure offering delivers an AI-native database foundation designed specifically for high-concurrency, low-latency workloads while adhering to strict enterprise governance and data sovereignty mandates.
By making PhoenixAI natively available within Cloudera's ecosystem, the joint solution delivers three core advantages:
Sub-Second Speed at Scale: PhoenixAI delivers sub-second SQL query performance across live streaming data and historical lakehouse formats, sustaining high concurrency without performance degradation.
Radically Reduced Complexity: Customers can instantly spin up a managed database cluster in a couple of clicks via the Cloudera Anywhere Cloud Marketplace. PhoenixAI queries real-time and lakehouse data in place — eliminating mandatory data denormalization, complex pre-aggregations, or unnecessary ETL pipelines.
Enhanced Security and Enterprise Trust: Deployed securely within the customer's private cloud environment, PhoenixAI enforces fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC), per-query auditing, and full data sovereignty, ensuring sensitive AI workloads remain protected under enterprise security protocols.
"PhoenixAI was selected as an early foundational database partner for Cloudera's innovative private cloud initiative," said Andy Ye, co-founder and chief product officer of PhoenixAI. "AI agents and modern real-time applications demand sub-second data access without compromising security or operational simplicity. Partnering with Cloudera allows our mutual customers to deploy PhoenixAI's high-concurrency database engine instantly within their trusted private cloud infrastructure, enabling them to move AI from experiment to production faster than ever."
"Our customers want AI on their own terms, in their own environments (self-hosted or Bring Your Own Cloud) with data under their control," said Michelle Hoover, SVP of Global Alliances & Channels at Cloudera. "Through Cloudera's collaboration with PhoenixAI, we can offer them a real-time database built the way agents need it to work, with the governance our customers expect."
PhoenixAI will showcase the new integration and host live technical demonstrations at Cloudera's annual global customer event, EVOLVE26, on October 27, 2026, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.
About PhoenixAI
PhoenixAI is the Agentic AI Database, purpose-built to give autonomous AI agents sub-second access to live enterprise data at massive scale. The platform unifies real-time and at-rest data in a single AI-native engine, combining the speed and concurrency that agentic workloads demand with the governance and deployment flexibility enterprises require to put AI into production. PhoenixAI runs fully managed inside the customer's cloud platform of choice, or self-managed on the customer's own private cloud, or on their own hardware, including on-premises. Formerly CelerData, and the creators of the StarRocks open source project, PhoenixAI is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
About Cloudera
Cloudera is the only hybrid data and AI platform company that large organizations trust to bring AI to their data anywhere it lives. Unlike other providers, Cloudera delivers a consistent cloud experience that converges public clouds, on-prem data centers, sovereign clouds, and the edge, leveraging a proven open-source foundation. As the pioneer in big data, Cloudera empowers businesses to apply AI and assert control over 100% of their data, in all forms, improving security, governance, and real-time and predictive insights. The world's largest brands across all industries rely on Cloudera to transform decision-making and ultimately boost bottom lines, safeguard against threats, and save lives.
