{"id":19219,"date":"2015-12-11T15:23:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T15:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=241262"},"modified":"2015-12-11T15:23:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T15:23:50","slug":"google-upgrades-cloud-sql-promises-managed-mysql-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/google-upgrades-cloud-sql-promises-managed-mysql-offerings\/","title":{"rendered":"Google upgrades Cloud SQL, promises managed MySQL offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/07\/Google-office.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-148022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/07\/Google-office.jpg\" alt=\"Google office\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Google has announced the beta availability of a new improved Cloud SQL for Google Cloud Platform &#8211; and an alpha version of its much anticipated Content Delivery Network offering.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/12\/the-next-generation-of-managed-MySQL-offerings-on-Cloud-SQL.html\" >blog <\/a>post Brett Hesterberg, Product Manager for Google\u2019s Cloud Platform, says the second generation of Cloud SQL will aim to give better performance and more \u2018scalability per dollar\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In Google\u2019s internal testing, the second generation Cloud SQL proved seven times faster than the first generation and it now scales to 10TB of data, 15,000 IOPS and 104GB of RAM per instance, Hesterberg said.<\/p>\n<p>The upshot is that transactional databases now have a flexibility that was unachievable with traditional relational databases. \u201cWith Cloud SQL we\u2019ve changed that,\u201d Hesterberg said. \u201cFlexibility means easily scaling a database up and down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Databases can now ramp up and down in size and the number of queries per day. The allocation of resources like CPU cores and RAM can be more skilfully adapted with Cloud SQL, using a variety of tools such as MySQL Workbench, Toad and the MySQL command-line. Another promised improvement is that any client can be used for access, including Compute Engine, Managed VMs, Container Engine and workstations.<\/p>\n<p>In the new cloud environment databases need to be easier to stop and restart if they are only used on occasion for brief or infrequent tasks, according to Hesterberg. Cloud SQL now caters for these increasingly common cloud applications of database technology through the Cloud Console, the command line within Google\u2019s gCloud SDK or a RESTful API. This makes admin a scriptable job and minimises costs by only running the databases when necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud SQL will create more manageable MySQL databases, claims Hesterberg, since Google will apply patches and updates to MySQL, manage backups, configure replication and provide automatic failover for High Availability (HA) in the event of a zone outage. \u201cIt means you get Google\u2019s operational expertise for your MySQL database,\u201d says Hesterberg. Subscribers signed up for Google Cloud Platform can now get a $300 credit to test drive Cloud SQL, it announced.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in another Google <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/compute\/docs\/load-balancing\/http\/cdn\">blog<\/a>, it announced an alpha release of its own content delivery network, Google Cloud CDN. The system may not be consistent and is not recommended for production use, Google warned.<\/p>\n<p>Google Cloud CDN will speed up its cloud services using distributed edge caches to bring content closer to users in a bid to compensate for its relatively low global data centre coverage against rivals AWS and Azure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced the beta availability of a new improved Cloud SQL for Google Cloud Platform &#8211; and an alpha version of its much anticipated Content Delivery Network offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,1307,656,344,523,1976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-cdn","category-database","category-google","category-mysql","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19220,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219\/revisions\/19220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}