Google Cloud launches its own version of PostgreSQL:
At its Google IO 2022 event, the company pitched AlloyDB as a new modernization option for users transitioning away from legacy databases.
Google claims that compared with standard PostgreSQL, AlloyDB was more than four times faster for transactional workloads in its performance tests, and up to 100 times faster for analytical queries.
AlloyDB was also two times faster for transactional workloads than Amazon's comparable service, Google claimed in a dig at its cloud hosting rival.
In addition, Google says the service uses the same blocks that power Google services such as YouTube, Search, Maps, and Gmail.
[...] The new service has also maintained full compatibility with PostgreSQL 14 according to Google, the latest version of the open-source database, enabling users to reuse their existing development skills and tools, and migrate existing PostgreSQL applications without code changes
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2022, @07:04PM (5 children)
Do we allow ads on soylent news?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2022, @07:10PM (4 children)
Yes, just as long as they're not submitted by #FreeAristarchus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2022, @09:22PM (3 children)
Where can I get a free Aristarchus? Do I have to buy anything first?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2022, @11:00PM (1 child)
Yes, you have to sign up for MongoAlloyDB. It's web scale.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 15 2022, @10:16PM
These new products seem magical. Can I get a #jailarchrist ?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 15 2022, @11:40AM
Check the dumpster.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2022, @07:41PM (3 children)
Now coming from Google. Does not make it any better than when it came from Microsoft.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2022, @09:17PM (2 children)
They didn't commit to an all-open-source business at any point. It's not like they are pulling some switcheroo.
We still have the open standard Postgres.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2022, @09:28PM (1 child)
We have Google trying to steal userbase from the open standard Postgres.
FTFY.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2022, @09:45PM
We have Google trying to steal all the data from userbase of the open standard Postgres.
FTFY.
Standard SQL... COPY INTO my_table
Google SQL... COPY INTO my_table WITH AUTO_SEND_DATA_INTO google_ad_table
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday May 14 2022, @07:53PM (1 child)
If Google has its fingers in your database, that's yet another level of privacy invasion nightmare.
Like everything else Google puts out, I have no doubt it's brilliantly engineered, damn compelling and hard to resist. Because all Google products are trojan horses into your data, and they really, REALLY want you to use them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2022, @11:06PM
1. It's "cloud" controlled by the vendor.
2. It's database - you know, where you store all your data.
3. It's Google - they make money by spying.
Yeah.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2022, @10:04PM (7 children)
If I'm cataloguing shoes, SQLite is great.
If I'm cataloguing hentai games for a fanatical online commmunity of perverts, MySQL will do fine.
If I'm doing fairly serious business, PostgreSQL will do the job.
If I need to level up and feel a major corporation rummaging around my kidneys, I'd go for DB/2 first.
(Score: 5, Funny) by stretch611 on Sunday May 15 2022, @01:33AM (2 children)
Can I get a copy of your MySQL database?... for research purposes of course
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 15 2022, @10:23PM (1 child)
Better question: what's the website url? (For educational and learning purposes of course)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 16 2022, @01:07PM
Isn't newgrounds still around?
(Honestly, can't be arsed to look into it myself. And they do/did a lot of other stuff like hosting amateur music and so on, and regular old games.)
(Score: 1) by recourse on Sunday May 15 2022, @06:28PM (3 children)
I have never used DB2 or had anyone recommend it. Whats it like?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 15 2022, @08:24PM (2 children)
I was trained on DB2 but not on Oracle. So the best I can say is that it is professional software on a competitive level with Oracle.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 15 2022, @10:21PM (1 child)
I can back this statement. Direct competition to Oracle. Industrial level functionality and features. One of the oldest databases around. If business processing is critical DB2 is useful. In the mainframe world there is nothing better. Expensive, cheaper than Oracle, and worth it.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Dr Spin on Monday May 16 2022, @03:47AM
No idea if its still true, but (in the days of OS/2) you could get DB/2 for personal use for free.
It is very high quality indeed, and well supported (better than Oracle by a country mile).
If you have a contract to maintain the database for your country's financial infrastructure, I highly recommend it,
In ALMOST ALL OTHER CASES:
Do not trust your corporate infrastructure to closed source anything. You WILL get screwed (in spades, if its Oracle).
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 15 2022, @01:47PM
So? Who cares what Google builds for itself? In another two years, it will be dead, unless they manage to upstream some of their improvements back to postgresql itself.