AlloyDB for PostgreSQL has launched and hosts Mark Mirchandani and Gabe Weiss are here this week to talk about it with guests Sandy Ghai and Gurmeet Goindi. This fully managed, Postgres compatible database for enterprise use combines the power of Google Cloud and the best features of Postgres for superior data management.

AlloyDB began years ago as a solution to help manage huge data migrations to the cloud. Customers needed a way to take advantage of the benefits of cloud, modernizing their databases as they migrated in an easy, flexible, and scalable way. Databases had to maintain performance and availability while offering enterprise customers optimal security features and more. We learn why PostgreSQL is important in the equation and how AlloyDB is built with Google scaling abilities and ML while supporting open source compatibility.

We talk about data analytics workloads and how AlloyDB handles in-the-moment analytics needs. Our guests describe and compare different database offerings at Google, emphasizing the solutions that set AlloyDB apart. We chat about the types of projects each database is best suited for and how AlloyDB fits into the Google database portfolio. We hear examples of customers moving to AlloyDB and how they’re using this new service. Clients have been leveraging the embedded ML features for better data management.

Sandy Ghai

Sandy is a product manager on GCP Databases and has been working on the AlloyDB team since the beginning.

Gurmeet “GG” Goindi

GG is a product manager at Google, where he focuses on databases and attends meetings. Prior to joining Google, GG led product management for Exadata at Oracle, where he also worked on databases and attended meetings. GG has had various product management, management, and engineering roles for the last 20 years in Silicon Valley, but his favorite meetings have been at Google. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Cool things of the week

• Google I/O site
• Introducing “Visualizing Google Cloud: 101 Illustrated References for Cloud Engineers and Architects” blog
• Meet the people of Google Cloud: Priyanka Vergadia, bringing Google Cloud to life in illustrations blog
• Working with Remote Functions docs

Interview

• AlloyDB for PostgreSQL site
• AlloyDB Documentation docs
• AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Intelligent, database-aware storage blog
• PostgreSQL site
• Introducing AlloyDB for PostgreSQL video
• Introducing AlloyDB, a PostgreSQL-compatible cloud database service video
• BigQuery site
• Spanner site
• CloudSQL site

What’s something cool you’re working on?

Gabe is working on some exciting content to support landing the AlloyDB launch.

Hosts

Mark Mirchandani and Gabe Weiss