From the course: Data Science on Google Cloud Platform: Designing Data Warehouses

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Cloud SQL

Cloud SQL

- [Instructor] Cloud SQL provides a relational database option in GCP. It is a fully-managed version of MySQL or PostgreSQL. It is the same product that you would install and use within your enterprise, but it is managed for scalability, high-availability, and backups. Cloud SQL is integrated with other GCP products for data access, management, and monitoring. It provides easy setup and scaling within GCP. It takes less administrative effort to use MySQL in GCP than do it within an enterprise. So is Cloud SQL a viable solution for you? Well, Cloud SQL provides easy transition of applications from enterprise to the cloud. If your application already uses MySQL or PostgreSQL, it can seamlessly move to GCP. It also provides fully-managed and integrated security with GCP, hence, access and action-control is easier to setup and manage with other GCP products and VMs. The shortcomings of Cloud SQL are the shortcomings of MySQL. It does not provide linear scaling. It does not ideate for…

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