What’s new in AlloyDB Omni version 15.7.0

AlloyDB Omni is back with a new release, version 15.7.0, and it's bringing serious enhancements to your PostgreSQL workflows, including:

• Faster performance

• A new ultra-fast disk cache

• An enhanced columnar engine

• The general availability of ScANN vector indexing 

• A new release of the AlloyDB Omni Kubernetes operator

From transactional and analytical workloads to cutting-edge vector search, this update delivers across the board – in your data center, at the edge, on your laptop, and in any cloud and with 100% PostgreSQL compatibility.

Let’s jump in.

Better performance

Many workloads already get a boost compared to standard PostgreSQL. In our performance tests, AlloyDB Omni is more than 2x faster than standard PostgreSQL for transactional workloads, with most of the tuning being done for you automatically, without special configurations. One of the key advantages is the memory agent that optimizes shared buffers while at the same time avoiding out-of-memory ...