Google Cloud SQL for MySQL is a fully-managed database service that helps you set up, maintain, manage, and administer your MySQL relational databases on Google Cloud Platform. However, there are differences between Cloud SQL and...

As the most popular open source database, MySQL has been implemented in many places, from small startups to very large organizations. Use cases vary from simple website applications to mission critical environments with 99.999% uptime...

As companies move more of their infrastructure to the cloud, they become increasingly reliant on cloud vendors. From an engineering perspective, IT’s focus is on building solutions for the business and ensuring a fast rollout...

Vendor lock-in is a well-known concept for database technologies. With cloud usage increasing, this lock-in has also expanded to include cloud providers. We can define vendor lock-in as a proprietary lock-in that makes a customer...

All companies nowadays have (or should have) a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to prevent data loss in the case of failure; built according to an acceptable Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for the business. A backup...

There are numerous cloud providers these days. They can be small or large, local or with data centers spread across the whole world. Many of these cloud providers offer some kind of a managed relational...

Where to Start? The best place I could find to start was none other than the official documentation. There is also a GCP Youtube channel for those who prefer multimedia. Once finding myself into the...

PostgreSQL is world’s most advanced and preferred open source RDBMS for many start-ups, mobile applications and developers. The traditional way to set up, operate and scale PostgreSQL is time consuming and requires expertise in database...

As more companies run their workloads in the cloud, cloud database services are increasingly being used to manage data. One of the advantages of using a cloud database service instead of maintaining your database is...