Today, Google announced the preview of AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service that can modernize the most demanding enterprise database workloads. With AlloyDB, enterprises can free themselves from the expensive legacy DB systems.
Google’s performance tests show that AlloyDB is over four times faster for transactional workloads, and up to 100 times faster for analytical queries as compared to standard PostgreSQL. It also performed two times faster for transactional workloads than Amazon’s comparable service. Hence, AlloyDB is a powerful new modernization option for transitioning from legacy databases.
AlloyDB comprises the best of Google’s scale-out compute and storage, industry-leading availability, security, and AI/ML-powered management with full PostgreSQL compatibility. It’s paired with the performance, scalability, manageability, and reliability benefits which enterprises expect to run their mission-critical applications. AlloyDB is Google’s next major milestone to support customers’ heterogeneous migrations.
Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, Data Management Software, IDC, said, “databases are increasingly shifting into the cloud and we expect this trend to continue as more companies digitally transform their businesses. With AlloyDB, Google Cloud offers large enterprises a big leap forward, helping companies to have all the advantages of PostgreSQL, with the promise of improved speed and functionality, and predictable and transparent pricing.”
“Developers have many choices for building, innovating and migrating their applications. AlloyDB provides us with a compelling relational database option with full PostgreSQL compatibility, great performance, availability and cloud integration. We are really excited to co-innovate with Google and can now benefit from enterprise-grade features while cost-effectively modernizing from legacy, proprietary databases.”, said Bala Natarajan, Sr. Director, Data Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering, PayPal.
An intelligent, database-optimized storage service built specifically for PostgreSQL forms the core of AlloyDB. At every layer of the stack, AlloyDB divides compute and storage using the same infrastructure building blocks that power large-scale Google services. The AlloyDB storage layer is a distributed system comprising a low-latency, regional log storage service for very fast write-ahead log (WAL) writing, a log processing service (LPS) for processing the WAL records and producing materialized database blocks and a failure-tolerant, sharded, regional block storage that ensures durability even in case of zonal storage failures. This unique technology allows for seamless scaling while offering predictable performance.
Analytical acceleration, embedded AI/ML, and automatic tiering of data enable AlloyDB to handle any workload with minimal management overhead. All this can be achieved while being fully compatible with PostgreSQL 14, which is the latest version of the advanced open-source database.
Key benefits of AlloyDB include:
- Superior performance, scale, and availability – Scale-up and achieve a high availability SLA of 99.99% for your most demanding enterprise workloads.
- ML-enabled autopilot systems – Automated and machine learning-enabled autopilot systems handle database patching, backups, scaling, and replication for you.
- Transparent and predictable pricing – Transparent and predictable pricing with no proprietary licensing or opaque I/O charges.
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