This page lists the main features of Cloud SQL and indicates which database engines support these features.
The checkmarks in Table 1 contain links to related topics.
Table 1. Cloud SQL features
MySQL | PostgreSQL | SQL Server | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Data protection | Backups | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Point-in-time recovery (PITR) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
High availability | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Cloning | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Disaster recovery | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Data migration | Data migration to external servers | ✓ | ||
Logs | Instance logging | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Planned maintenance | Maintenance windows | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Maintenance controls | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Self service maintenance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Replication | Read replicas | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Cross-region read replicas | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
External read replicas | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Binary logging on read replicas | ✓ | |||
Replication from an external server | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Read replica indexes stored procedures | ✓ | |||
Logical replication | ✓ | |||
Security | Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Cloud SQL Auth Proxy support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Audit logging | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Connection organization policies | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
IAM database authentication | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Access Transparency (AXT) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Key Access Justification | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Private Service Connect | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Cloud Security Command Center Monitoring | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
VPC Service Controls | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Insights | Query Insights | ✓ | ✓ |