Google Cloud Beefs Up Database Services For Generative AI Workloads
SiliconANGLE, Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
Google Cloud said today it's updating multiple database services, including AlloyDB, Spanner and Memorystore for Valkey 7.2, with new features that should make them more suitable for generative artificial intelligence applications.
To begin with, Google announced that it's making the ScaNN vector index generally available in AlloyDB, which is the company's fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service, aimed at high-performance database workloads.
In a blog post, Andi Gutmans, Google Cloud's general manager and vice president of engineering of databases, explained that the ScaNN vector index is the same technology that powers services such as Google Search and YouTube. The ScaNN technology is designed to make unstructured data such as videos searchable by representing it as vector embeddings.