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Google Cloud database news roundup, October 2024 edition
- Google Cloud launched exciting features for Database Center, including support for Spanner and advanced AI-powered capabilities that can be unlocked with Gemini.
- ScaNN index for AlloyDB is now generally available, allowing for the first PostgreSQL-compatible index that can scale to support more than one billion vectors while maintaining state-of-the-art query performance.
- Firebase Data Connect, a new backend-as-a-service that is integrated with a fully managed PostgreSQL database powered by Cloud SQL, is now in preview.
- A strategic partnership with Aiven, the multi-cloud data infrastructure company, was announced to provide a simplified and secure way to deploy, manage, and scale AlloyDB Omni.
- Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 17, and integration with Certificate Authority Service (CAS) is in preview to simplify TLS certificate management. Cloud SQL for SQL Server Transaction Log Export is now in preview.
- AlloyDB enhancements include creating free trial clusters using a copy of your Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL backup, enabling Enhanced Query Insights without the need for Gemini enablement, and PostgreSQL version 16 availability.
- Memorystore for Valkey 8.0 and ultra-low latency in-memory vector search, single-shard clusters, and cross-region replication are now available in preview.
- Database Migration Service (DMS) now supports MySQL version 8.4 and PostgreSQL version 16.
- Spanner Editions offers more flexibility and cost transparency, full-text search is now available, and BigQuery External Datasets with Spanner lets data analysts browse, explore, and query Spanner tables as if they were native BigQuery tables.
- Palo Alto Networks, Prefab, Unity, Bayer, and Deckmatch adopted Google Cloud database solutions to boost performance, lower costs, and streamline operations or centralize solutions.
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