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Google Cloud databases

Google Cloud offers industry-leading databases built on planet-scale infrastructure, with AI at its core. Experience unmatched reliability, price-performance, security, and global scale for all your AI agents and applications.

And with Google Agentic Data Cloud, you now have a unified platform that integrates models, analytics, and operational databases into a single, AI-native system.

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Our portfolio of databases

Relational databases store and organize data in tables with defined relationships, making it easy to understand how data structures relate to each other

  • AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: 100% PostgreSQL-compatible database that runs anywhere, and offers superior performance, availability, and scale for your most demanding workloads. You can now scale millions of collaborating AI agents, without impacting the systems that run your business.
  • Spanner: The always-on, globally consistent, multi-model, and virtually unlimited scale database that powers Google billion user products such as Google Search, Gmail, and YouTube. Offers up to 99.999% availability SLA.
  • Cloud SQL: Highly flexible, fully managed database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server workloads, offering superior performance, availability, and manageability.

Additional services

  • AlloyDB Omni

    Downloadable edition of AlloyDB, designed to run anywhere.

  • Spanner Omni

    Downloadable edition of Spanner, designed to run anywhere.

  • PostgreSQL for agents

    Scale millions of collaborating AI agents, with full workload isolation

Non-relational databases, also known as NoSQL databases, store data in a flexible, non-tabular format

  • Bigtable: Highly flexible, NoSQL database for high throughput, low-latency applications at scale, that powers Google’s billion user products such as Google Search, Ads, and YouTube. Offers up to 99.999% availability SLA.
  • Memorystore: Fully managed, in-memory database service for Valkey, Redis*, and Memcached, offering sub-millisecond data access, scalability, and high availability.
  • Firestore: Highly scalable and serverless document database for developing rich applications. Offers up to 99.999% availability SLA.
  • Firestore with MongoDB compatibility: Leverage your existing MongoDB expertise with Firestore's serverless scalability, performance, and high availability.

Additional databases

  • Spanner Graph

    Reveal hidden relationships in your data with graph capabilities at virtually unlimited scale.

  • Firebase Realtime Database

    Store and sync data in real time across your apps.

  • MongoDB Atlas

    Fully managed, database-as-a-service on Google’s data cloud.

Vector databases allow you to store, index, and query vector embeddings, or numerical representations of unstructured data, such as text, images, or audio

  • AlloyDB AI: Build enterprise gen AI apps with the familiar PostgreSQL interface. It integrates with AI tools such as Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for model inferencing, and open, standard technologies like pgvector and LangChain. And with the new ScaNN index, we're bringing twelve years of Google research to PostgreSQL for improved vector search performance and accuracy.
  • Spanner: Build intelligent apps with a single database that brings together relational, graph, key value, full-text search, and vector search, eliminating the need for separate, specialized database solutions. We support storing vectors and searching them using exact nearest neighbor (KNN) or approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search.
  • Cloud SQL: Store vectors in the same Cloud SQL for MySQL and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance you’re already using, and then search against your vector store using either exact nearest neighbor (KNN) or approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search. Cloud SQL integrates with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for model inferencing, and supports open source pgvector for quickly building gen AI apps.

Additional AI databases

  • Memorystore

    Store and query vector embeddings in Memorystore for Redis, Redis Cluster, and Valkey.

  • Bigtable

    Easily build gen AI apps with built-in exact nearest neighbor (KNN) vector search.

  • Firestore

    Build powerful gen AI applications with Firestore vector similarity search.

Migrate and modernize databases and applications by moving them to cloud-based services for improved performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency

  • Database Migration Service: Simplify migrations from MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Oracle databases to Cloud SQL and AlloyDB. Start migrating in just a few clicks with an integrated, Gemini-assisted conversion and migration experience.
  • Datastream: Serverless and easy-to-use change data capture and replication service from MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Oracle databases. With Datastream for BigQuery, you can seamlessly replicate from relational databases directly to BigQuery, enabling near real-time insights on operational data.
  • Oracle Database@Google Cloud: Migrate and supercharge Oracle databases and applications in Google Cloud. Deploy the latest database services in a Google Cloud datacenter running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) hardware. 
  • Bare Metal Solution for Oracle: Run Oracle databases the same way you do it, on-premises on a fully managed end-to-end infrastructure including compute, storage, and networking.

Migration resources

  • Migrate from DynamoDB to Spanner

    How to migrate from Amazon DynamoDB to Spanner.

  • Migrate data from HBase to Bigtable

    How to migrate from an Apache HBase cluster to Bigtable.

  • Google Cloud Partner Services

    Managed offerings from our open source partners Datastax, Redis Labs, and Neo4j.

Gain a comprehensive view and supercharge your entire database fleet management with AI. Proactively detect and identify the root cause of problems.

  • Database Center: Manage availability, cost, protection, performance, security, and compliance across your entire database fleet. A centralized dashboard provides a unified view of your Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Bigtable, Memorystore and Firestore instances, and now also offers support (in preview) for self-managed databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server) on Google Compute Engine.
  • AI-assisted troubleshooting: Analyze and troubleshoot the performance of your databases and detect anomalies in the execution of the queries, with AI built into Database Center. When Cloud SQL or AlloyDB detect anomalies in query performance or identify high system load, AI-assisted troubleshooting helps you analyze the situation with evidence and provides recommendations.
  • Database agents: The Database Onboarding Agent evaluates user requirements to recommend the best Google Cloud database and guides users through the provisioning process. The Database Observability Agent proactively monitors database fleet performance, identifies anomalies, and provides intelligent recommendations and multi-turn remediation workflows for troubleshooting and optimization. 

Resources

  • Getting started

    How to set up Database Center

  • Database health categories

    Issues monitored by Database Center

  • Democratizing database observability

    Learn more about AI-powered troubleshooting

Relational databases

Relational databases store and organize data in tables with defined relationships, making it easy to understand how data structures relate to each other

  • AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: 100% PostgreSQL-compatible database that runs anywhere, and offers superior performance, availability, and scale for your most demanding workloads. You can now scale millions of collaborating AI agents, without impacting the systems that run your business.
  • Spanner: The always-on, globally consistent, multi-model, and virtually unlimited scale database that powers Google billion user products such as Google Search, Gmail, and YouTube. Offers up to 99.999% availability SLA.
  • Cloud SQL: Highly flexible, fully managed database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server workloads, offering superior performance, availability, and manageability.

Additional services

  • AlloyDB Omni

    Downloadable edition of AlloyDB, designed to run anywhere.

  • Spanner Omni

    Downloadable edition of Spanner, designed to run anywhere.

  • PostgreSQL for agents

    Scale millions of collaborating AI agents, with full workload isolation

Non-relational databases

Non-relational databases, also known as NoSQL databases, store data in a flexible, non-tabular format

  • Bigtable: Highly flexible, NoSQL database for high throughput, low-latency applications at scale, that powers Google’s billion user products such as Google Search, Ads, and YouTube. Offers up to 99.999% availability SLA.
  • Memorystore: Fully managed, in-memory database service for Valkey, Redis*, and Memcached, offering sub-millisecond data access, scalability, and high availability.
  • Firestore: Highly scalable and serverless document database for developing rich applications. Offers up to 99.999% availability SLA.
  • Firestore with MongoDB compatibility: Leverage your existing MongoDB expertise with Firestore's serverless scalability, performance, and high availability.

Additional databases

  • Spanner Graph

    Reveal hidden relationships in your data with graph capabilities at virtually unlimited scale.

  • Firebase Realtime Database

    Store and sync data in real time across your apps.

  • MongoDB Atlas

    Fully managed, database-as-a-service on Google’s data cloud.

Vector databases

Vector databases allow you to store, index, and query vector embeddings, or numerical representations of unstructured data, such as text, images, or audio

  • AlloyDB AI: Build enterprise gen AI apps with the familiar PostgreSQL interface. It integrates with AI tools such as Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for model inferencing, and open, standard technologies like pgvector and LangChain. And with the new ScaNN index, we're bringing twelve years of Google research to PostgreSQL for improved vector search performance and accuracy.
  • Spanner: Build intelligent apps with a single database that brings together relational, graph, key value, full-text search, and vector search, eliminating the need for separate, specialized database solutions. We support storing vectors and searching them using exact nearest neighbor (KNN) or approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search.
  • Cloud SQL: Store vectors in the same Cloud SQL for MySQL and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance you’re already using, and then search against your vector store using either exact nearest neighbor (KNN) or approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search. Cloud SQL integrates with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for model inferencing, and supports open source pgvector for quickly building gen AI apps.

Additional AI databases

  • Memorystore

    Store and query vector embeddings in Memorystore for Redis, Redis Cluster, and Valkey.

  • Bigtable

    Easily build gen AI apps with built-in exact nearest neighbor (KNN) vector search.

  • Firestore

    Build powerful gen AI applications with Firestore vector similarity search.

Migrate and modernize

Migrate and modernize databases and applications by moving them to cloud-based services for improved performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency

  • Database Migration Service: Simplify migrations from MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Oracle databases to Cloud SQL and AlloyDB. Start migrating in just a few clicks with an integrated, Gemini-assisted conversion and migration experience.
  • Datastream: Serverless and easy-to-use change data capture and replication service from MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Oracle databases. With Datastream for BigQuery, you can seamlessly replicate from relational databases directly to BigQuery, enabling near real-time insights on operational data.
  • Oracle Database@Google Cloud: Migrate and supercharge Oracle databases and applications in Google Cloud. Deploy the latest database services in a Google Cloud datacenter running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) hardware. 
  • Bare Metal Solution for Oracle: Run Oracle databases the same way you do it, on-premises on a fully managed end-to-end infrastructure including compute, storage, and networking.

Migration resources

  • Migrate from DynamoDB to Spanner

    How to migrate from Amazon DynamoDB to Spanner.

  • Migrate data from HBase to Bigtable

    How to migrate from an Apache HBase cluster to Bigtable.

  • Google Cloud Partner Services

    Managed offerings from our open source partners Datastax, Redis Labs, and Neo4j.

Fleet management

Gain a comprehensive view and supercharge your entire database fleet management with AI. Proactively detect and identify the root cause of problems.

  • Database Center: Manage availability, cost, protection, performance, security, and compliance across your entire database fleet. A centralized dashboard provides a unified view of your Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Bigtable, Memorystore and Firestore instances, and now also offers support (in preview) for self-managed databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server) on Google Compute Engine.
  • AI-assisted troubleshooting: Analyze and troubleshoot the performance of your databases and detect anomalies in the execution of the queries, with AI built into Database Center. When Cloud SQL or AlloyDB detect anomalies in query performance or identify high system load, AI-assisted troubleshooting helps you analyze the situation with evidence and provides recommendations.
  • Database agents: The Database Onboarding Agent evaluates user requirements to recommend the best Google Cloud database and guides users through the provisioning process. The Database Observability Agent proactively monitors database fleet performance, identifies anomalies, and provides intelligent recommendations and multi-turn remediation workflows for troubleshooting and optimization. 

Resources

  • Getting started

    How to set up Database Center

  • Database health categories

    Issues monitored by Database Center

  • Democratizing database observability

    Learn more about AI-powered troubleshooting

Gartner Magic Quadrant

Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems

Google is a Leader for the sixth year in a row and is positioned furthest in vision among all vendors evaluated.
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Customer success stories

  • Dun and Bradstreet
    Dun and Bradstreet Builds a Foundation for Innovation with GKE and Cloud SQL.

    Video (2:17)

  • HSBC
    HSBC achieves 18x faster data processing with AI.

    Video (2:29)

  • Pager Health
    Pager Health Simplifies the Healthcare Journey with Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and GKE.

    Video (2:31)

  • People looking at a computer.
    UKG uses AlloyDB to serve 80,000 organizations, process over 20 million transactions daily, and schedule over 730 million shifts monthly.

    Video (2:58)

  • Nuro car
    Nuro uses vector similarity search in AlloyDB to help classify objects that autonomous vehicles encounter on the road.

    Video (2:46)

  • Farm
    Bayer Crop Science unlocks data efficiency and experiences 5x more throughput with AlloyDB for PostgreSQL.

    Video (2:10)

  • Fastweb + Vodafone logo
    Fastweb + Vodafone
    With Spanner, BigQuery, and Gemini, the company simplified its architecture and introduced AI-assisted engineering workflows.

    5-min read

  • Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank
    Uses Spanner for its high availability, external consistency, and infinite horizontal scalability for their online banking platform.

    5-min read

  • Chess.com logo
    Chess.com
    With Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition, Chess.com can now seamlessly connect millions of chess players worldwide at a lower price-performance.

    5-min read

Developer resources

  • Gen AI for developers white paper
    Your guide to AI application and agent development with operational databases.

    10-min read

  • Data agents guidebook
    Learn more about what are data agents and what we offer at Google Cloud.

    10-min read

  • A practical guide to data science
    Learn how AI unlocks a wave of new use cases for data scientists.

    10-min read

Why Google Cloud databases

Build gen AI apps and agents with your trusted enterprise data

Quickly build gen AI applications and agents with your own trusted enterprise data. Easily enhance your AI apps with knowledge graphs and Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for high-value use cases. With PostgreSQL for agents in AlloyDB, you can scale alongside millions of collaborating AI agents without impacting the systems that run your business. Seamless integrations with leading AI tools like Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and MCP Toolbox empower you to rapidly build apps and agents that are securely connected to your operational data. Get started with the Data Agent Kit to streamline your data engineering and data science workflows in a single, open-source package.

Download our gen AI and databases white paper
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More than 95 customers building with Google Cloud databases

95%


More than 95% of Google Cloud's top 100 customers use Cloud SQL.

4x


AlloyDB is 4x faster than standard PostgreSQL for transactional workloads.

2x


AlloyDB provides up to 2x better price-performance compared to self-managed PostgreSQL.

Modernize legacy apps with the most open data platform

Seamlessly modernize your legacy applications and databases with the most open data platform for flexibility and portability, without vendor lock-in. We support the most popular open source and commercial engines such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Valkey, Oracle, and SQL Server, ensuring operational efficiency, accelerated development, and lower total-cost-of-ownership (TCO), allowing you to modernize efficiently at your own pace.

Accelerate database modernization with AI

Supercharge database development and management with AI

Supercharge database development and management with Gemini for Google Cloud. We’re bringing AI-powered capabilities to assist you with development, performance optimization, fleet management, governance, and migrations. The Database Onboarding Agent evaluates user requirements to recommend the best Google Cloud database and guides users through the provisioning process. The Database Observability Agent proactively monitors database fleet performance, identifies anomalies, and provides intelligent recommendations and multi-turn remediation workflows for troubleshooting and optimization.

Learn more about AI-powered assistance in databases
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With Gemini in Databases, we can get answers on fleet health in seconds and proactively mitigate potential risks to our applications more swiftly than ever before.

Bogdan Capatina, Technical Expert in Database Technologies, Ford Motor Company

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