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Measuring the OLTP Performance of AlloyDB against Postgres using sysbench

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Siddharth Jain

AlloyDB is a new HTAP database that Google claims to give 4x better OLTP performance than Postgres. Here, we describe a performance test to compare its performance to Postgres as I wanted to see it for myself. TL;DR: For the … Continue reading →

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AlloyDB Test Drive

Posted on December 20, 2022 by Siddharth Jain

TL;DR: Background Historically two distinct database access patterns emerged – OLTP and OLAP – and databases were developed to cater to either OLTP or OLAP. OLTP databases would capture data from transactional systems (e.g., sales orders) and the data would … Continue reading →

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