Comparing Google Cloud SQL Enterprise Editions
Cloud SQL Enterprise vs Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus
Cloud SQL is Google’s fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. More than 95% of Google Cloud’s top 100 customers use Cloud SQL to run their businesses.
Google recently announced the addition of Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus — which builds upon the success of Cloud SQL, incorporating additional enterprise features, enhanced performance, and an upgraded SLA. Google’s existing Cloud SQL offerings have been renamed Cloud SQL Enterprise — which still includes all of the existing features of Cloud SQL with the same pricing.
What is Cloud SQL?
Google Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service that helps you set up, maintain, manage, and administer your relational databases on Google Cloud Platform. You can use Cloud SQL with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server. First introduced in 2014, Cloud SQL is part of Google’s Cloud Database solutions that span relational, NoSQL, Document, and In-memory datastore solutions.
For the purposes of this comparison, we’ll focus on Cloud SQL for MySQL and PostgreSQL as Cloud SQL Enterprise editions are currently only available for these databases.
Cloud SQL Enterprise Editions
Cloud SQL Enterprise is available in the following editions - providing different performance and availability characteristics to meet the needs of your business and your applications.
- Cloud SQL Enterprise edition: provides all core capabilities of Cloud SQL and is suitable for applications requiring a balance of performance, availability, and cost.
- Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition: provides the best performance and availability to run applications requiring the highest level of availability and performance in addition to the capabilities of the Cloud SQL Enterprise edition.
Cloud SQL Enterprise vs Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus
The following table provides an overview of the features available for each edition:
Cloud SQL Enterprise Use Cases
Database Migration
Easy and cost-effective homogeneous migrations to managed services leveraging Google’s Database Migration Service (DMS). Customers who need to quickly move existing databases from on-premise, another cloud provider, or even from Compute Engine would benefit from a homogeneous migration to Cloud SQL.
Database Modernization
Heterogenous migrations to move off the old-guard vendors to enterprise-class, OSS compatible databases. Customers who wish to move to open databases and reduce or remove legacy license requirements would benefit from a heterogenous modernization to Cloud SQL. Heterogenous modernizations often require additional effort to ensure that business logic is removed from the database and migrated to the application layer. Applications often need some refactoring depending on the existing database. Google ISV partner tooling is often used to streamline heterogenous modernizations.
New application development
Transformation to cloud native databases and platform integrations to deliver new customer experiences, redesign business models. Although Cloud SQL is a great option for new applications, customers should also consider Cloud Spanner and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL — which provide enhanced performance and scalability.
Supporting Generative AI
Extend your database application to build AI-powered experiences using the pgvector PostgreSQL extension, LangChain, and LLMs. Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is great for storing vector embeddings from your ML models.
How to get started?
Want to get started with Cloud SQL? Here’s how!
Google Cloud Console
Access Cloud SQL from the Google Cloud console.
Google Cloud Training
Check out the Cloud SQL Quest on Google Cloud Skills Boost.
Google Cloud Codelabs
Try out the following Codelab activities to learn more about specific Cloud SQL features:
