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MySQL provides the underpinnings for many other hosted apps, like Wordpress. It's the lingua franca of web databases, so that's why we're working with it. Disc
by Lewisham 13y ago
MySQL provides the underpinnings for many other hosted apps, like Wordpress. It's the lingua franca of web databases, so that's why we're working with it.
Disclaimer: I'm a developer on Cloud SQL.
- sandGorgon 13y agoThank you for replying, but it seems weird that are competing for that segment against... well, Dreamhost. In fact, I would say that you would have a large segment of people/startups interested in leveraging postgresql on the cloud without the headache of managing replication,etc.
- Lewisham 13y agoSpeaking for myself and not for the company (I only joined Cloud SQL in October), given limited time/people/money, I'd have made the same choice. Everything on the web can run on MySQL, or has a connector to do so. Postgres, even a year or two ago, was a lot more difficult. Things are different now with the popularity of Postgres, but that's how we got from there to here. The goal of Cloud is to provide the building blocks so people can make great products. The quickest way to making good stuff is to use the same tools that everyone is already familiar with, and I think that's why Cloud SQL exists. If you want more "touch" on the database for more power, there's Cloud Datastore [1]. But we support companies like Costco on Cloud SQL, so it's good for a lot of folks. https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-datastore/ https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-datastore/
- michaelt 13y agoAre there any plans to offer mysql 5.6 or 5.7? As I understand it [1] currently only mysql 5.5 is available. [1] https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/faq#version https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/faq#version
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