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AlloyDB for Postgres is a fully-managed, Postgres-compatible database service on Google Cloud. Compared to standard Postgres, AlloyDB is more than **4x faster for transactional workloads** Compared to Amazon's service (they don't say but we can guess it's Aurora) AlloyDB's storage engine is the secret sauce behind these performance numbers. In this post, I'll walk you through the architecture and design details of the service. It's heartening to see CockroachDB, Redshift, Aurora, and now AlloyDB converging on Postgres.