> AlloyDB is nothing but their own forked version of Postgres with some improvements. Neither it's open source nor up-streamed to validate their claims.
They're claiming a 4x speed up over stock postgres for transactional workloads. Given that postgres is a very mature and performant DB already I think that's pretty friggin incredible! Im not sure which parts of it you'd expect them to open source, given that it's basically a carefully designed + built storage layer which I imagine is pretty closely tied to GCPs internals. If you wanted to validate their claims you could always start up an instance and run your own tests.
They're claiming a 4x speed up over stock postgres for transactional workloads. Given that postgres is a very mature and performant DB already I think that's pretty friggin incredible! Im not sure which parts of it you'd expect them to open source, given that it's basically a carefully designed + built storage layer which I imagine is pretty closely tied to GCPs internals. If you wanted to validate their claims you could always start up an instance and run your own tests.