Releasesby GlyphAlloyDB now supports Best Matching 25 (BM25) indexes for full-text search in Preview
AlloyDB now supports Best Matching 25 (BM25) indexes for full-text search in Preview . You can use the pg_textsearch extension to create BM25 indexes and optimize probabilistic ranking of full-text search. This feature is supported on AlloyDB instances running PostgreSQL 17 or 18. For more information, see Create and manage a BM25 index .
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Workspace sharing in Declarative Native Apps (Public Preview)
Workspace sharing is now available in public preview for Declarative Native Apps. Providers can share a whole directory of files and folders by declaring a workspace in the application package manifest. Consumers get a read-only workspace when they install the app, and can browse the folder structure and open the files.
Gateway Monitoring & A/B Testing (General availability)
Gateway Monitoring & A/B Testing is now generally available. Use gateway model monitors to track drift and performance for inference services behind a Snowflake Gateway, compare baseline and challenger services during live traffic splits, and evaluate results in Snowsight or with SQL. For more information, see Gateway monitoring & A/B testing .
Multi-party Approval (General availability)
Multi-party Approval (MPA) is now generally available. When a Multi-party Approval policy is attached to your account, MPA enforces a mandatory second-person (“four-eyes”) verification step for critical account operations. A Multi-party Approval policy defines which operations require approval and who can approve them.
Unity Gateway is now generally available
Unity Gateway is now generally available. Unity Gateway is the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, part of Unity Catalog. With Unity Gateway you can: Control which AI services teams can use. Route and manage AI traffic across providers. Govern MCP servers to control access and costs. Monitor usage, cost, access, and lineage from one place.
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available. See Delta Lake feature support matrix .
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors or column mapping enabled is now generally available. See Add tables with deletion vectors or column mapping to a share .
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AlloyDB can sync BigQuery tables in preview
BigQuery tables can be synced into AlloyDB once or on a periodic schedule, giving operational analytics low-latency transactional access to data lake data.
AlloyDB integration with BigQuery enters preview
AlloyDB can connect operational and analytical data through real-time lakehouse federation to BigQuery, periodic data synchronization and one-time table syncs, all in preview.
Note: IAM group authentication is available in Preview for new AlloyDB clusters
Note: IAM group authentication is available in Preview for new AlloyDB clusters. To enable this feature on an existing cluster, contact your Google Cloud account team. IAM group authentication for AlloyDB is available in Preview for new clusters running PostgreSQL 15 and later.
AlloyDB write endpoints are now available in Preview
AlloyDB write endpoints are now available in Preview . Write endpoints simplify database connection management by providing a stable domain name service (DNS) name for your applications, decoupling them from instance IP addresses.
AlloyDB now supports cross-region failover in Preview
AlloyDB now supports cross-region failover in Preview . You can optionally enable cross-region failover to automate the recreation of the original primary when a secondary cluster is promoted while maintaining your replication topology without requiring manual cluster deletion or re-creation.
External search with AlloyDB now supports OpenSearch in Preview
External search with AlloyDB now supports OpenSearch in Preview . You can use the external_search_fdw extension to connect to an OpenSearch cluster and query its data directly from your database.
Transparent query forwarding is now available in Preview for clusters compatible with PostgreSQL 17 and 18
Transparent query forwarding is now available in Preview for clusters compatible with PostgreSQL 17 and 18. With this feature, the primary node in a cluster intercepts read-only queries and selectively forwards them to read pool instances while maintaining read-your-writes consistency.
MCP Toolbox for Databases adds AlloyDB observability and query insights
The Model Context Protocol Toolbox for Databases can now access AlloyDB observability features and advanced query insights directly from an IDE.