The Cloud and Database Benchmarking Blog

PostgreSQL is available as a managed service from nearly every cloud provider, but performance and cost can differ significantly under the hood. In this independent study, we benchmark OVHcloud’s PostgreSQL DBaaS against AWS RDS PostgreSQL, Azure Flexible PostgreSQL, and DigitalOcean PostgreSQL using OLTP workloads and a strict price-performance methodology. We compared throughput, latency, and efficiency on equivalent instance types to provide an objective view of how these

There is always a lack of information and expertise regarding database configuration parameters. Tuning databases for specific use cases and workloads usually requires experience. In this article, we show you how to start with database tuning and some alternative methods instead of hiring high-paid database consultants but still get better performance from your data infrastructure.

AlloyDB from Google Cloud is the new modern DBaaS solution with a 100% PostgreSQL-API and competing with AWS Aurora and CosmosDB for PostgreSQL from MS Azure. It claims to be more than 2x faster than standard PostgreSQL for transactional workloads, and a 100 times faster for analytical queries. Since a few week AlloyDB Omni, a downloadable, self-managed database version of AlloyDB is available. Let's get some independent numbers!

Earlier we published an article about cost/performance results for PostgreSQL DBaaS products of the three hyperscalers AWS, MS Azure and Google Cloud Platform. We were surprised by the massive performance differences and decided to take a closer look at the query performance to identify possible reasons. This is going to be an in-depth dive into query performance.