Linux distributors have been moving from Oracle's MySQL to its popular fork, MariaDB - and now Google is also moving to MariaDB.

The search giant is moving its terabytes of information to the open source MariaDB format for “ideological reasons,” according to one senior Google engineer. Here’s the backstory.

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 ...