AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
A fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service for your most demanding enterprise workloads. AlloyDB combines the best of Google with 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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AlloyDB AI can help you build a wide range of generative AI applications
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AlloyDB Omni is a downloadable edition of AlloyDB designed to run anywhere
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.
Simplified, ML-enabled management
Automated and machine learning-enabled autopilot systems simplify management by handling 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, and support cross-region replicas.
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, including generative AI models, directly within a query or transaction 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. Committed use discounts offer additional savings for 1 to 3 year commitments.
"Institutional investors require 100% accuracy for complete transparency and auditability, but blockchains are data-intensive, with our system holding over 2 billion records. We migrated our database from Amazon Aurora to AlloyDB on Google Cloud and it's delivering beyond our highest expectations, with 3x faster performance and 60% lower cost for a similar instance size."
Louis Sirico, Chief Technology Officer, FLUIDEFI
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.
AlloyDB - Transactional (OLTP) Benchmarking Guide
Best practices for running an Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) benchmark.
AlloyDB - Analytical (OLAP) Benchmarking Guide
Best practices for running an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) benchmark.
Learn about AlloyDB's intelligent, database-aware storage
How AlloyDB's horizontally scalable storage layer is optimized for PostgreSQL.
PostgreSQL the way only Google can deliver it
A deep dive into AlloyDB.
Compare features
Compare AlloyDB to other PostgreSQL options on Google Cloud
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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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4x faster than standard PostgreSQL for transactional workloads*
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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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4x faster than standard PostgreSQL for transactional workloads*
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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
All features
All features
| Built-in generative AI | AlloyDB AI offers high-performance, pgvector-compatible search that runs vector queries up to 10x faster compared to standard PostgreSQL. It helps you generate vector embeddings from within your database, access data stored in open-source gen AI tools, such as LangChain, and access your AI models, whether they're local models in AlloyDB or remote models in Vertex AI. |
| Intelligent database management | AlloyDB uses adaptive algorithms and ML for PostgreSQL vacuum management, storage and memory management, data tiering, and analytics acceleration. An Index Advisor monitors queries and recommends indexes that can be added to increase performance, and it helps improve query performance by up to 4x, based on our performance tests. |
| Cross-region replication | Create secondary clusters in different regions for disaster recovery, have them continuously replicated from the primary region, and promote them in case of an outage. Secondary clusters also improve read performance by bringing data closer to your users. AlloyDB's regional replicas deliver more than 25x lower replication lag than standard PostgreSQL for high throughput transactional workloads. |
| Continuous backup and recovery | Protect your business from data loss with point-in-time recovery to any point within your defined retention window. Restore the database to a specific date and time for development, test and auditing purposes, or recover your production database from user or application errors. You no longer need expensive hardware or software solutions to achieve enterprise-level data protection. |
| Easy migrations | No matter where your database is located—whether on-premises, on Compute Engine, or in other clouds—Database Migration Service (DMS) can migrate it to AlloyDB securely and with minimal downtime. DMS leverages native PostgreSQL replication capabilities and automated schema and code conversion, as necessary, to maximize the reliability of your migration. |
Pricing
Pricing for AlloyDB
Pricing for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is transparent and
predictable with no expensive, proprietary licensing, and no
opaque I/O charges. Get full details
on pricing and
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about committed use discounts.
Partners
Accelerate your workloads by working with a partner
Streamline the process of moving to, building, and working with AlloyDB. Read about the expanded partner ecosystem and about Google Cloud Ready - AlloyDB validated partners.
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.