With the technology advances of our cloud-first databases, Google Cloud has become the go-to platform for companies looking to run complex, real-time, business-critical workloads. Don’t just take our word for it. Today, we’re pleased to announce that Google was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024 report. We believe this recognition solidifies AlloyDB as a top choice for translytical workloads, where it handles transactional, analytical, and AI workloads all on a single database.

The AlloyDB difference

Fueling this recognition is AlloyDB's differentiated architecture, which combines the performance of a traditional relational database with the scalability and flexibility of cloud-first technology. Also, AlloyDB eliminates the need for complex data pipelines and separate databases for transactional, analytical, and gen AI workloads. Businesses are able to gain real-time integrated insights and build AI-powered customer experiences without compromising operational efficiency, which ultimately accelerates  innovation and drives better business outcomes.

But AlloyDB doesn’t stop there; it goes further. We built AlloyDB based on the following principles: 

• Cloud-first - built from the ground up for the cloud, leveraging the same infrastructure that powers Google's billion-user products. 
• Embrace open standards - built on PostgreSQL, one of the most popular open-source relational databases. This lets you avoid vendor lock-in and leverage a vast ecosystem of tools and resources.
• Superior scalability - designed to take advantage of Google Cloud’s disaggregated compute and storage architecture. This allows AlloyDB to scale both vertically and horizontally to support your most demanding workloads (scaling vertically to 128 vCPU and horizontally to over 2000 vCPUs with read pools). 
• No data movement - the fully integrated columnar engine automatically transforms operational row data into a columnar in-memory format to accelerate analytical queries. This means that you don’t need separate systems for transactional and analytical processing and eliminates the need for ETL. AlloyDB’s columnar engine gives you up to 100x better performance for analytical queries compared to standard PostgreSQL.
• AI-powered insights - incorporates Google’s cutting-edge ScaNN vector search technology. AlloyDB AI delivers up to 4x faster vector queries and typically uses 3-4x less memory than the HNSW index in standard PostgreSQL. This helps large workloads run on smaller shapes and improves performance for hybrid workloads.
• Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud - designed to excel in any environment. Deploy AlloyDB on-premises, at the edge, or even on your laptop with AlloyDB Omni. For a fully managed multi-cloud experience, Aiven for AlloyDB Omni offers a simplified and secure way to deploy, manage, and scale your database across Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure.

Latest industry recognition

In addition to being named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024, Google received the highest scores possible in 11 of the evaluation criteria including Vision, Innovation, Gen AI/LLM, Real-time Analytics, Data Security, and several others.  

Customers such as Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, Bayer, and Tricent  leverage AlloyDB,  standardizing on an open-source-compatible, enterprise-grade database that is highly scalable and reliable and giving them the ability to launch new products faster and expand into new markets.

“Google offers a strong vision and solid price performance at scale. … Reference customers value Google for its comprehensive analysis tools, advanced LLM capabilities, exceptional technical support, and documentation. Google's AlloyDB is an excellent choice for firms looking for a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective database tailored for translytical workloads with a vision of evolving towards a more global and distributed architecture.” - The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024

Getting started is a breeze

If you're looking for a database that can handle your most demanding translytical workloads with exceptional performance, availability and scale, AlloyDB is the clear choice, evolving with your business and providing the tools and capabilities you need to stay ahead of the curve.

If you’re new to Google Cloud, you can sign up for an AlloyDB free trial. If you're already a Google Cloud customer, head over to the AlloyDB console. Once you’re there, click "Create a trial cluster" and we'll guide you through migrating your data to a new AlloyDB database instance.

The future of PostgreSQL is here, and it’s built for you. Read more about AlloyDB in our brand-new e-book. Then start your free trial and see what AlloyDB can do for your applications.