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Dear Google, pretty please add some Postgres support

by samhamilton 10y ago

sandGorgon 10y ago
+1 Google almost seems deliberately adamant in not wanting to do anything with postures.
- boulos 10y ago
  Nope, but samhamilton has it right. Getting this in place was really the first step. While I personally like Postgres myself, it's still the case that MySQL dominates in terms of install base and dollars.
theDoug 10y ago
Already available if you wanna spin up your own GCE: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/set-up-postgres https://cloud.google.com/solutions/set-up-postgres Or! Through the Launcher for about $5/month to start https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher/details/bitnami-launchpad/postgresql?q=postg&project=no-idea-what-project https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher/details/bitnami-la... I can imagine with time we see it make an appearance as a managed service, like the other databases, as well.
- samhamilton 10y ago
  Yep - currently rolling my own on GCE but would really love them to roll out managed service to handle failover. Hopefully now that their v2 has gone GA it releases someone to work on adding new db types.
mythz 10y ago
+1 don't see why they're putting in the effort of providing managed SQL Server hosting when PostgreSQL still needs doing.
- numbsafari 10y ago
  A lot of companies use SQL server. I wouldn't be surprised if it has double the installed base of PostgreSQL. Especially among the more established firms that Google seems to be targeting in their sales effort.
  - redwood 10y ago
    Double? More like 20x
  - deleted 10y ago
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- manigandham 10y ago
  They dont have managed SQL Server hosting, just images ready to go so you dont have to buy and install it yourself. SQL Server also has a massive user base, especially within the large enterprises that Google is trying to get as customers.
tapirl 10y ago
the possibility would be small, for the mysql used in Cloud SQL is a heavily modified version.
- boulos 10y ago
  I think you're thinking of Cloud SQL v1. v2 is "just" a managed instance of MySQL 5.x (I think you can still lock to 5.6 if you're not ready for 5.7). The MySQL team at Google already open-sourced the semi-sync replication, etc. so it's not like it was ever "crazy" anyway. Disclaimer: while I work on Google Cloud, I don't work on the Cloud SQL team.
mikecb 10y ago
https://github.com/youtube/vitess/issues/1861#issuecomment-232102606 https://github.com/youtube/vitess/issues/1861#issuecomment-2...

Dear Google, pretty please add some Postgres support

sandGorgon 10y ago

+1 Google almost seems deliberately adamant in not wanting to do anything with postures.

boulos 10y ago
Nope, but samhamilton has it right. Getting this in place was really the first step. While I personally like Postgres myself, it's still the case that MySQL dominates in terms of install base and dollars.

theDoug 10y ago

Already available if you wanna spin up your own GCE: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/set-up-postgres https://cloud.google.com/solutions/set-up-postgres Or! Through the Launcher for about $5/month to start https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher/details/bitnami-launchpad/postgresql?q=postg&project=no-idea-what-project https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher/details/bitnami-la... I can imagine with time we see it make an appearance as a managed service, like the other databases, as well.

samhamilton 10y ago
Yep - currently rolling my own on GCE but would really love them to roll out managed service to handle failover. Hopefully now that their v2 has gone GA it releases someone to work on adding new db types.

mythz 10y ago

+1 don't see why they're putting in the effort of providing managed SQL Server hosting when PostgreSQL still needs doing.

numbsafari 10y ago
A lot of companies use SQL server. I wouldn't be surprised if it has double the installed base of PostgreSQL. Especially among the more established firms that Google seems to be targeting in their sales effort.
- redwood 10y ago
  Double? More like 20x
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
manigandham 10y ago
They dont have managed SQL Server hosting, just images ready to go so you dont have to buy and install it yourself. SQL Server also has a massive user base, especially within the large enterprises that Google is trying to get as customers.

tapirl 10y ago

the possibility would be small, for the mysql used in Cloud SQL is a heavily modified version.

boulos 10y ago
I think you're thinking of Cloud SQL v1. v2 is "just" a managed instance of MySQL 5.x (I think you can still lock to 5.6 if you're not ready for 5.7). The MySQL team at Google already open-sourced the semi-sync replication, etc. so it's not like it was ever "crazy" anyway. Disclaimer: while I work on Google Cloud, I don't work on the Cloud SQL team.

mikecb 10y ago

https://github.com/youtube/vitess/issues/1861#issuecomment-232102606 https://github.com/youtube/vitess/issues/1861#issuecomment-2...