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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, ...

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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yugabyte, the leader in open source distributed SQL databases, today announced the general availability of Yugabyte Cloud, Yugabyte’s public database-as-a-service ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced new cloud-hosted versions of its SQL Server database service as two older on-premises varieties finally will see the end of extended support Tuesday. Having transformed ...

Cloud SQL, Google’s fully managed MySQL database service on its Cloud Platform, is getting a major upgrade today with the beta launch of version two of the service. The original Cloud SQL launched ...

Since the rise of the Web, SQL-based relational databases have been the dominant structured storage technology behind online applications. The past few years have seen the emergence of the cloud as a ...

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 ...

Ahana Cloud for Presto turns a data lake on Amazon S3 into what is effectively a data warehouse, without moving any data. SQL queries run quickly even when joining multiple heterogeneous data sources.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the cloud, Microsoft announces a new SQL server that bridges the on-site/cloud gap. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing ...