DORA Database Requirements for AI Agents | CockroachDB

Financial AI agents operating under DORA, the EU AI Act, and GDPR require database infrastructure that can provide durable auditability, attributable actions, transaction integrity, operational resilience, and data-governance controls before deployment. The discussion argues that traditional logs often leave evidence, attribution, and state gaps because they fail to preserve decision inputs, reference-data versions, agent session identities, reasoning context, and immutable records needed to reconstruct actions. It emphasizes storage-layer append-only auditing, per-agent identity attribution, strong consistency, idempotency, compensating transactions for partial failures, and enforced data residency as important capabilities for regulated financial workloads. DORA, fully applicable since January 2025, affects ICT asset classification, incident reporting, third-party risk management, resilience testing, and recovery planning, while the EU AI Act establishes traceability and record-keeping expectations for high-risk systems, with relevant Annex III obligations delayed to December 2027. The text presents distributed SQL databases as a potential fit because they combine ACID transactions, serializable consistency, and horizontal scaling, while cautioning that these technical measures are preparation for compliance rather than a guarantee of it.

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