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Google is hosting a version of its Cloud Next conference in Tokyo this week, and it’s putting the focus squarely on tweaking its databases for AI workloads (because at this point in 2024, AI is the ...

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 ...

The revamped Cloud SQL service updates to a more recent version of MySQL, but sticks with its mission of making no-maintenance databases With the general availability of Google Cloud Platform’s latest ...

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, ...

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Why does Google need another database, and why in particular does it need to introduce a version of PostgreSQL highly tuned for Google’s datacenter-scale disaggregated compute and storage? It is a ...

It's the defining cloud battle of our time: AWS vs Microsoft Azure vs Google Cloud Platform. Who can win the IaaS enterprise market? Computerworld takes a look at the merits of the big three vendors ...