“First, they are actually using more than one cloud provider, so they want to have the flexibility to run everywhere. “There are different reasons for that,” he told me. AlloyDB is the standard PostgreSQL database at its core, though the team did modify the kernel to allow it to use Google’s infrastructure to its fullest, all while allowing the team to stay up to date with new versions as they launch.Īndi Gutmans, who joined Google as its GM and VP of Engineering for its database products in 2020 after a long stint at AWS, told me that one of the reasons the company is launching this new product is that while Google has done well in helping enterprise customers move their MySQL and PostgreSQL servers to the cloud with the help of services like CloudSQL, the company didn’t necessarily have the right offerings for those customers who wanted to move their legacy databases (Gutmans didn’t explicitly say so, but I think you can safely insert “Oracle” here) to an open source service. But these are services that offer an interface that is compatible with PostgreSQL to allow developers with these skills to use these services. The company, after all, already offers CloudSQL for PostgreSQL and Spanner, Google Cloud’s fully managed relational database service also offers a PostgreSQL interface. If you’re deep into the Google Cloud ecosystem, then a fully managed PostgreSQL database service may sound familiar. Google today announced the launch of AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service that the company claims to be twice as fast for transactional workloads as AWS’s comparable Aurora PostgreSQL (and four times faster than standard PostgreSQL for the same workloads and up to 100 times faster for analytical queries).
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