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, ...

The emergence of globally scalable online services for social networks, streaming content, retail, payment systems and other business uses significantly changed application infrastructure requirements ...

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 ...

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 ...

Customers run the same Base Database Service available in OCI on a compact engineered system called Data Infrastructure Cloud@Customer X11. The 8U system is installed at a customer’s facility, and ...

Cloud databases, also known as Database as a Service (DBaaS), offer a range of benefits for developers, particularly in terms of ease of use, deployment options, disaster recovery, and scalability.

IDC predicts that big data is growing at an annual rate of 60% for structured and unstructured data. Businesses need to do something with all that data, and traditionally databases have been the ...

The cloud has become an important option for businesses of all sizes today. Even server applications like SQL Server, that many organizations once considered on-premises only, have gradually been ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...