--- title: Why Character.ai chose Spanner and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL description: Character.ai chose AlloyDB for PostgreSQL and Spanner to meet their growing needs for scalability and performance. They were able to migrate to AlloyDB... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-character-ai-chose-spanner-and-alloydb-for-postgresql-secccb5co twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Character.ai chose Spanner and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL | daily.dev og:description: Character.ai chose AlloyDB for PostgreSQL and Spanner to meet their growing needs for scalability and performance. They were able to migrate to AlloyDB... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-character-ai-chose-spanner-and-alloydb-for-postgresql-secccb5co og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sECCCB5co.png og:image:alt: Why Character.ai chose Spanner and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [Google Cloud](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp) [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/sECCCB5co) # [Why Character.ai chose Spanner and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL](https://api.daily.dev/r/sECCCB5co "Go to post") Character.ai chose AlloyDB for PostgreSQL and Spanner to meet their growing needs for scalability and performance. They were able to migrate to AlloyDB smoothly and achieved a 150% increase in queries processed per second. They also scaled their infrastructure by refactoring parts of their system into standalone microservices powered by AlloyDB and Spanner. [#backend](/tags/backend "Check all #backend posts")[#gcp](/tags/gcp "Check all #gcp posts")[#alloydb](/tags/alloydb "Check all #alloydb posts")[#spanner](/tags/spanner "Check all #spanner posts") Feb 12, 2024•4m read time•From [cloud.google.com](https://api.daily.dev/r/sECCCB5co "cloud.google.com") [](https://api.daily.dev/r/sECCCB5co "Go to post") Table of contents [Enhancing data performance with Google Cloud and AlloyDB](https://api.daily.dev/r/sECCCB5co "Enhancing data performance with Google Cloud and AlloyDB")[Achieving 150% growth with AlloyDB’s increased scalability](https://api.daily.dev/r/sECCCB5co "Achieving 150% growth with AlloyDB’s increased scalability")[Scaling our infrastructure with AlloyDB and Spanner](https://api.daily.dev/r/sECCCB5co "Scaling our infrastructure with AlloyDB and Spanner") 27 Impressions Comment Bookmark Copy Share your thoughtsPost [](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp) [Google Cloud](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp "https://daily.dev/sources/gcp") Google Cloud Platform provides a suite of cloud computing services for building, deploying, and mana... 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