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Things are moving fast on Google Cloud these days. The latest version of the venerable open-source PostgreSQL database is already available in Google Cloud SQL.
What's Cloud SQL
Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service provided by Google Cloud offering MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. Among of the many services offered for these databases are:
- reduced maintenance cost with fully managed relational databases in the cloud
- reliable and secure services backed by 24/7 SRE team
- automatic database provisioning, storage capacity management, and other time-consuming tasks
- easy integration with existing apps and Google Cloud services like GKE and BigQuery
- automatic patches and updates, as well as maintenance controls
New Features
Some of our favorite new features in PostgreSQL 13, are:
- Additional partitioning and pruning
- Incremental sorting
- Efficient hash aggregation
- Efficient storage space reduction enabled in B-tree indexes
- Vacuuming operations for critical database health operations
- New monitoring capabilities
- Automatic patches and updates, as well as maintenance controls
Learn More
To learn more about Postgres in Cloud SQL,
check this link.
References
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- .NET, Java and Ruby now available in Google Cloud Functions
- Eventrac, a new events functionality to build event-driven applications on the Google Cloud
- Docker and Apache Flink available in Dataproc’s Component Exchange
- Logs Buckets and Log Views now available in the Google Cloud Platform
