Google today announced it has added support for native MySQL connections to its Cloud SQL service. As such, the fully managed MySQL service hosted on Google Cloud Platform is getting a significant ...

Google’s Cloud Platform has long featured Cloud SQL, a zero-maintenance MySQL database that’s hosted on Google’s cloud platform. What it didn’t offer was an API to easily manage these databases ...

From AWS, Google and Oracle to Databricks, IBM and Snowflake, here are the top 16 vendors leading the cloud database management systems market, according to Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s Top ...

Data estates are expansive. Organizations in all business verticals are operating data stacks that run on a mixture of legacy technologies that work effectively but aren’t always easy to move or ...

Rubrik Inc. (NYSE:RBRK) is one of the best IPO stocks to buy in 2026. On April 22, Rubrik expanded its cyber resilience capabilities to include Google Cloud SQL, specifically targeting organizations ...

For the most part, much of the activity surrounding databases in the cloud have been confined to NoSQL databases. But the folks at the Heroku cloud unit of Salesforce.com are starting to make an ...

Decentralized Data Management Is the Key The key to success with cloud databases is decentralized data management for both “Lift & Shift” and “Green Field-Only” strategies. The ability to provide your ...

DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...

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 ...