PostgreSQL database is an open-source, relational database management system that is highly developed
Google Cloud's fully managed, enterprise-grade AlloyDB for PostgreSQL maintains compatibility with the PostgreSQL database engine while introducing several upgrades
Google Cloud Next 24 showed AlloyDB's 4x transactional performance on the same instance and 2x price-performance over self-managed PostgreSQL
Google Cloud added adaptive vacuum management, automated memory management, transactional, and query processing layers to PostgreSQL's kernel
Compute Engine CPU scaling and IOPS limits hinder large-scale PostgreSQL data handling
The same local colossus storage is used by AlloyDB compute instances in a cluster
It is not necessary to pre-provision AlloyDB’s storage capacity and set up additional space for IOPS
you can use AlloyDB as a single datastore for workloads related to transactional, analytical, and vector databases