A Google spokesperson said, "Google's MySQL team is in the process of moving internal users of MySQL at Google from MySQL 5.1 to MariaDB 10.0.

Google Inc. and MySQL are nearing a deal that could find the open-source database vendor incorporating features created by the search giant. Google is generally believed to be the world's largest ...

MySQL 6.0 is scheduled for release in late 2008; some code contributed by Google and security improvements are due in MySQL 7.0 ...

Google today announced it has added support for native MySQL connections to its Cloud SQL service. As such, the fully managed MySQL service hosted on Google Cloud Platform is getting a significant ...

MySQL is broadly used by cloud applications, and Google is trying to keep it fuss-free — no small feat for any piece of software, let alone a database notorious in its needs for tweaks to work well.

Google currently uses a heavily modded version of Oracle’s MySQL 5.1 DBMS, while the latest is MySQL 5.6–in other words, it was time for Google to upgrade anyway.

Google Cloud SQL now supports native MySQL connections, a move that is intended to make it easier to integrate third-party applications. With the support, native MySQL apps can be plugged into ...

Google's Cloud SQL offering may change that, and give customers a much quicker path to jumping on the App Engine platform. The service will include database import and export, so customers will be ...

My SQL AB has laid out its software road map through 2009, including some code contributed by Google Inc. and security improvements that are due in MySQL 7.0. Earlier this year Google signed a ...

Porting the Google-developed features over to Version 5.0 or beyond shouldn’t be a problem, according to both parties. Not that that would necessarily accelerate Google’s migration from MySQL 4.0.