AlloyDB Omni – run AlloyDB anywhere
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AlloyDB Omni – run AlloyDB anywhere
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#2wow
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#3Google Cloud gets a lot of heat because of Google's legacy of killing things off (the exact opposite of what enterprise decision makers want when selecting a cloud platform).
But I have to applaud Google for the excellent first party emulators and local tooling that they provide (Alloy Omni doesn't seem like an emulator on first readthrough, but enabling fast local iteration has the same effect). The Firebase emulator suite makes development soooo fast because it cuts out a deployment step to a shared resource that has to be coordinated.
Meanwhile, Microsoft as been dragging their feet on supporting CosmosDB emulation on Arm hardware [0]. I was a big fan of CosmosDB, but kind of gave up on it after switching to an M1 MBP because it was unwieldy to work with without a local emulator.
[0] https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-db-emulator-docker/iss...
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#4That’s incredible. I wasn’t expecting them to allow you to run AlloyDB on premise but this is a potential game changer for on-prem Postgres instances, especially if you are doing analytical queries on the same data set.
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#5I wonder how they make transactional workloads 2x faster vs normal Postgres
The analytics workloads improvements seem pretty straightforward (or at least there is prior art like timescale)
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#6> AlloyDB Omni provides full compatibility with PostgreSQL extensions
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#7> The free developer edition of AlloyDB Omni is currently available as a technology preview. Check back for full product pricing information.
Thanks, but no thanks!
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#8Google Cloud gets a lot of heat because of Google's legacy of killing things off (the exact opposite of what enterprise decision makers want when selecting a cloud platform). But I have to applaud Google for the excellent first party emulators and local tooling that they provide (Alloy Omni doesn't seem like an emulator on first readthrough, but enabling fast local iteration has the same effect). The Firebase emulato…
Right now it looks just like an emulator - not based on the description, but based on it being only available right now as a free developer edition "not suitable for production use". Wondering how pricing will work for the real deal, and also whether it'll be horizontally scalable like their cloud based solutions.
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#9> 3. Use of the Software.
> 3.1. Use. You may authorize employees, agents, and subcontractors to use the Software in accordance with this Section 3, so long as you remain responsible for them. You may make a reasonable number of copies of the Software for back-up and archival purposes.
> You acknowledge that the Software is a preview offering not intended for production environments, and you agree that you will only use the Software in non-production environments.
Anyway, all that stuff in the docs is lovely, but if you just want to have a look:
pip install gsutil
gsutil cp -r gs://alloydb-omni-install/$(gsutil cat gs://alloydb-omni-install/latest) .
Seems kind of weird, having a one-time install script to prep a machine (but only a specific type of machine!) that you then run a pair of docker containers on to me, honestly. Eventually consistent deployment states? eh. whatever...
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#10Has Google contributed some of these changes back to Postgres? I went looking and even a search for "alloydb" in some postgres mailing lists return no results. It has some very exciting features, I was a bit surprised to see nobody talking about it.