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 ...

Cloud SQL, based on the open-source MySQL database, was announced on Google's App Engine Blog yesterday, and is being rolled out to selected developers in a limited trial—for free.

Google Cloud SQL performance may beat Amazon Aurora at low thread counts, but Aurora owns the high end Many web applications have been built on an open source stack that included MySQL.