Google Enhances Cloud-Based Database

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: George Moon.

Google’s innovative Cloud SQL database has received several upgrades, most notably to storage, speed, and location choice. The upgrades include enhancements for speedier read and writes, more storage, and the choice of running instances in either the U.S. or Europe, InfoWorld reports. Google enhances products often and with purpose, so these latest upgrades, it could be argued, are an attempt to gain more ground in the cloud computing market.

Cloud ComputingIn a blog post, Joe Faith, product manager for the Google Cloud SQL, wrote that storage would increase by 10 times to 100GB, the size of instances has been increased to 16GB RAM, faster writes via optional asynchronous replication, EU datacenter option for Premier customers and integration with Google Apps Script…

"You want your application to be fast. Databases play a big role in your overall application speed and end-users’ experience. Reads and writes should execute instantly, even as your user base grows to millions of users, and this requires faster, larger databases," wrote Faith. "Google App Engine is designed to scale. And now Google Cloud SQL, a MySQL database that lives in Google’s cloud, is scaling up alongside App Engine to meet that demand for faster access to more data. With the features we are launching today, you can now work with bigger, faster MySQL databases in the cloud."…

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