Google first launched SQL for its Cloud platform in 2011. Google maintains that the service is easy-to-use and helps companies build applications by managing mundane tasks such as applying patches and updates, managing backups and configuring replications. Google Cloud SQL was not only easy to use it was easy to connect to as well. Google is now announcing the beta of its new Cloud SQL for Google platform.
Google first launched SQL for its Cloud platform in 2011. Google maintains that the service is easy-to-use and helps companies build applications by managing mundane tasks such as applying patches and updates, managing backups and configuring replications. Google Cloud SQL was not only easy to use it was easy to connect to as well. Google is now announcing the beta of its new Cloud SQL for Google platform.
The main goal of the next generation Cloud SQL is better performance and scalability per dollar. Google claims it has achieved this with seven times the performance of the first generation and it scales to 10TB of data, 15,000 IOPS and 104GB of RAM per instance. Along with the performance increase the new Cloud SQL is flexible allowing users to scale up or down as applications demand it. Not only can databases be scaled up and down they can be turned off when not needed to further reduce costs. The Cloud SQL can be managed through the Cloud Console, a command line, or a RESTful API.
Google states that its MySQL databases are fully managed (Google will apply patches and updates to MySQL, manage your backups, configure replication and provide automatic failover for High Availability in the event of a zone outage). As with the existing Cloud SQL, users can focus on building their applications and running their businesses while Google takes care of the important background operations. Google also gives users the option to opt out of certain features such as replication and automatic failover.
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Interested parties can test drive the Cloud SQL beta now.
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