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 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 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 ...

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 has released improvements and enhancements for the popular open source relational database, MySQL. Google’s code has not yet been incorporated into the official release, though the ...

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.

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.