AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
A fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service for your most demanding enterprise database workloads. AlloyDB combines the best of Google with one of the most popular open-source database engines, PostgreSQL, for superior performance, scale, and availability.
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Fully compatible with PostgreSQL, providing flexibility and true portability for your workloads
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Superior performance, 4X faster than standard PostgreSQL for transactional workloads*
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Fast, real-time insights, up to 100X faster analytical queries than standard PostgreSQL*
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Transparent and predictable pricing, with no expensive licensing and no opaque I/O charges
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Simplified management with machine learning-enabled autopilot systems
Benefits
Superior performance, scale, and availability
Scale up and achieve predictable performance and a high availability SLA of 99.99%, inclusive of maintenance, for your most demanding enterprise workloads.
ML-enabled autopilot systems
Simplify management with automated and machine learning-enabled autopilot systems that handle database patching, backups, scaling, and replication for you.
Transparent and predictable pricing
Eliminate dependency on high-cost, proprietary databases, and take advantage of transparent and predictable pricing with no proprietary licensing or opaque I/O charges.
Key features
Key features
Fully managed database service
AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service with industry-leading performance, availability, and scale. It automates administrative tasks such as backups, replication, patching, and capacity management and uses adaptive algorithms and machine learning for PostgreSQL vacuum management, storage and memory management, data tiering, and analytics acceleration, so you can focus on building your applications.
Fast transactional processing
AlloyDB is more than 4X faster than standard PostgreSQL for transactional workloads. It's suitable for the most demanding enterprise workloads, including those that require high transaction throughput, large data sizes, or multiple read replicas. Read connections scale horizontally, backed by low lag, scale-out read replica pools.
High availability
AlloyDB offers a 99.99% uptime SLA, inclusive of maintenance. It automatically detects and recovers from most database failures within 60 seconds, independent of database size and load. The architecture supports non-disruptive instance resizing and database maintenance.
Real-time business insights
AlloyDB is up to 100X faster than standard PostgreSQL for analytical queries, with zero impact on operational performance when running business intelligence, reporting, and hybrid transactional and analytical workloads (HTAP). Built-in integration with Vertex AI, Google's artificial intelligence platform, allows you to call machine learning models directly within a query or transaction, giving you low-latency, high-throughput augmented insights without having to write any application code.
Customer-friendly pricing
Pricing is transparent and predictable, with no expensive, restrictive licensing and no opaque I/O charges. Storage is automatically managed, and you're only charged for what you use, with no additional storage costs for read replicas. A free ultra-fast cache, automatically provisioned in addition to instance memory, allows you to maximize the price-performance ratio. Database Migration Service offers easy-to-use, reliable migrations at no additional charge.
"At PLAID, we are developing KARTE, a customer experience platform. AlloyDB is fully compatible with PostgreSQL and can transparently extend column-oriented processing. We think it's a new powerful option with a unique technical approach that enables system designs to integrate isolated OLTP, OLAP, and HTAP workloads with minimal investment in new expertise. "
Takuya Ogawa, Lead Product Engineer, PLAID
What's new
What’s new
Documentation
Find resources and documentation
AlloyDB: Google forges its own new PostgreSQL blend
In this research note, analyst Tony Baer of dbInsight analyzes the role of AlloyDB within Google Cloud's databases and analytics portfolio.
Introducing AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
In this video, Sandy Ghai, Product Manager at Google, discusses why AlloyDB was built and explains the technology that powers it.
AlloyDB overview
Learn how AlloyDB offers superior performance, availability, and scale for the most demanding enterprise workloads.
AlloyDB quickstart using the Cloud Console
Learn how to use the Google Cloud Console as a visual interface to get started with AlloyDB.
Configure AlloyDB using the API
Learn how to use the API to configure AlloyDB for your workloads.
Compare features
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Key benefits
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Easiest lift and shift to the cloud
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Same management as MySQL and SQL Server
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Lowest cost relational database option
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99.99% SLA, inclusive of maintenance
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Hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP)
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Adaptive, ML-enabled autopilot systems
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Strong consistency and global scale
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99.999% availability SLA
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For internet-scale applications
Key benefits
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Easiest lift and shift to the cloud
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Same management as MySQL and SQL Server
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Lowest cost relational database option
Key benefits
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99.99% SLA, inclusive of maintenance
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Hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP)
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Adaptive, ML-enabled autopilot systems
Key benefits
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Strong consistency and global scale
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99.999% availability SLA
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For internet-scale applications
Pricing
Pricing for AlloyDB
Pricing for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is transparent and
predictable with no expensive, proprietary licensing and no
opaque I/O charges. Click the pricing link below for any additional
information.
Partners
Accelerate your workloads by working with a partner
Our partners help you streamline the process of moving to, building, and working with Google Cloud databases. Read about the expanded AlloyDB partner ecosystem.
Google Cloud database products comply with our SLA policies. They may offer different latency or availability guarantees from other Google Cloud services.
*Based on Google Cloud performance tests, March 2022.