Google is hosting a version of its Cloud Next conference in Tokyo this week, and it’s putting the focus squarely on tweaking its databases for AI workloads (because at this point in 2024, AI is the ...

On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...

Google’s first attempt at MySQL as a service, Cloud SQL, launched in 2011, was somewhat of a disappointment from the standpoint of performance and scalability. Cloud SQL Second Generation, which was ...

Google Cloud has updated its fully managed distributed SQL database service Spanner to add graph processing capabilities, dubbed Spanner Graph. The update is expected to help developers build ...

The connector makes it easier to bring data from Microsoft SQL databases into Google Data Studio. The launch of a new Google Data Studio connector isn't typically something to write home about. But ...

If relational databases had just worked at scale to begin with, the IT sector would be a whole lot more boring and we wouldn’t be having a conversation with Andrew Fikes, the vice president and ...