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N. Sabharwal, S. G. EdwardHands On Google Cloud SQL and Cloud Spannerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5537-7_2

2. Cloud SQL

Navin Sabharwal1  and Shakuntala Gupta Edward2
(1)
New Delhi, India
(2)
Ghaziabad, India
 
Cloud SQL is Google’s relational database. It’s a cloud hosted MySQL or PostgreSQL database.

Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service that makes it easy to set up, manage, maintain, and administer relational databases on the Google Cloud Platform.

—Google

Cloud SQL enables you to run the same SQL queries you are used to but within Google’s managed cloud. This offering is extremely helpful if you are migrating an existing application to a cloud database without much reengineering.

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