Google Cloud’s fully managed cloud-based database service for PostgreSQL is called AlloyDB. With these services that were born in the cloud, that is often where the tale stops.
But with AlloyDB, Google Cloud is adopting a somewhat unique strategy. AlloyDB Omni, a downloadable version of AlloyDB that customers can install locally. Also remotely, or on their laptops, is being released by the firm today. There will be a development edition that is free, but licences for business users will cost money.
In comparison to the open source standard version of PostgreSQL, Google claims that AlloyDB Omni, which the firm will offer as a downloadable container. It is 100 times quicker for analytical queries and is twice as fast for transactional workloads. AlloyDB Omni can scale to a considerably larger database, according to Google.
“When we announced AlloyDB, we talked a lot about the fact that many customers had approached us and talked about their interest in getting off legacy databases. And moving to open APIs, whether those are customers coming from Oracle, [Microsoft’s] SQL Server, [IBM’s] Db2, Google’s Andi Gutmans explained.
“And part of the mission of AlloyDB was really to help customers modernize their existing legacy databases, onto open APIs, while the focus of our AlloyDB managed service was to bridge some of those gaps between the higher-end legacy database environments that customers are running on premises and what they could get from open source.”
Google Cloud’s fully managed cloud-based database service for PostgreSQL is called AlloyDB. But with AlloyDB, Google Cloud is adopting a somewhat unique strategy. AlloyDB Omni, a downloadable version of AlloyDB that customers can install locally, remotely, or on their laptops, is being released by the firm today. There will be a development edition that is free, but licences for business users will cost money.
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