Google’s first attempt at MySQL as a service, Cloud SQL, launched in 2011, was somewhat of a disappointment from the standpoint of performance and scalability. Cloud SQL Second Generation, which was ...

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After two-and-a-half years in preview, Google’s Cloud SQL, the company’s fully managed MySQL database service, has now hit general availability. As with most Google services that hit this milestone, ...

Google has now added machine learning (ML) capabilities to its Google BigQuery, the company's petabyte (PB)-scale cloud database offering. Now dubbed BigQuery ML, the new version lets you use simple ...

Google today announced the general availability of Cloud SQL, which, as its name implies, is a MySQL database that lives in Google’s cloud. Among the new features is the encryption of customer data, a ...

Google Cloud SQL, which adds a MySQL database Web service to Google's cloud-based App Engine development stack, is now available in a free preview version, Google announced this week. In a Google Code ...

Google has created a relational database for its cloud-hosted App Engine application development and hosting platform, a much-requested addition, the company said on Thursday. For now, the database, ...

Google has announced the pricing for its Cloud SQL database, signalling the end of the free trial period that selected developers have been enjoying, but also opening it up to the wider public. The ...

A new beta of BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform’s data warehousing and analysis service, lets database administrators use standard SQL rather than a dialect of the relational database query language, ...