--- title: "MariaDB Cloud Partner: Google Cloud" publish_date: 2026-06-26 --- # MariaDB Cloud Partner: Google Cloud ## The World’s Most Trusted Open Source Database, Now on Google Cloud MariaDB and Google Cloud, delivering enterprise database performance with the scale, security and AI capabilities of Google’s global infrastructure. ![]() PROVEN TECHNOLOGY. GOOGLE-POWERED. ## Open Source Freedom. Enterprise Reliability. MariaDB Cloud gives you 100% open source freedom without sacrificing the reliability, security and support that enterprise workloads demand. On Google Cloud, you unlock AI-ready infrastructure, global anycast networking and seamless integration with the entire GCP ecosystem. - Native integration with Cloud Spanner, BigQuery and Dataflow - Automated snapshots and backups to Google Cloud Storage - Deep integration with Google Cloud Armor and IAM - Managed Kubernetes deployment via GKE with auto-scaling - AI-powered query optimization using Vertex AI - Native vector search for AI and RAG workloads, no extensions needed ## 3B+ Downloads: the world’s most popular open source database ## 30k+ Enterprise customers globally TRUSTED BY: ![]()**Virgin Media 02** Telecommunications ![]()**FTMO.com** FinTech ![]()**Bentley Systems** Engineering Software SOLUTIONS ## Built for Every Enterprise Workload From high-frequency transactional systems to petabyte-scale analytics. ### OLTP & Transactional Workloads Handle millions of transactions per second with full ACID compliance, InnoDB optimization and sub-millisecond latency on Google Cloud’s global backbone. Perfect for financial services, e-commerce and SaaS applications. ### Analytics & Data Warehousing Real-time analytics on operational data with MariaDB Exa, a columnar analytics engine that works alongside BigQuery for massive-scale analysis. Query billions of rows without impacting transactional performance. ### Cloud-Native Applications Built for modern microservices and containerized architectures on GKE. Manage schema evolution, scale connections dynamically and integrate with Cloud Run, Pub/Sub and your CI/CD pipelines. ### High-Availability Production Mission-critical setup with MariaDB MaxScale intelligent query routing, automated primary election and cross-region disaster recovery using Google Cloud’s multi-region infrastructure. GETTING STARTED ## Deploy in Minutes, Not Months Google Cloud Marketplace removes procurement friction. From first click to production in three steps. STEP 1 ##### Find on GCP Marketplace Search for MariaDB Enterprise Server or MariaDB Cloud in Google Cloud Marketplace. Start free, no commitment required. [Visit Marketplace](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/skysql-public/skysql-gcp-mp?project=astute-harmony-458203-c3) STEP 2 ##### One-Click Deploy Select your instance type, region, and HA configuration. Deploy in under 5 minutes. STEP 3 ##### Connect & Scale Update your connection strings, configure MaxScale and scale horizontally as demand grows. PLATFORM CAPABILITIES ## Enterprise-Grade By Default Everything you need to run mission-critical databases in production on Google Cloud. Automated Backups & PITR Continuous backups to Cloud Storage with point-in-time recovery to protect your data from any incident. Multi-Region Replication Active-active replication across GCP regions for disaster recovery and low-latency global reads. Security & Compliance End-to-end encryption, Cloud IAM integration, VPC Service Controls and SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA compliance. Amazon CloudWatch Integration Deep integration with Google Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging for full observability and alerting. Zero-Downtime Updates Rolling upgrades and configuration changes without any service interruption, powered by MaxScale. 24/7 Enterprise Support Direct access to MariaDB engineering experts with enterprise SLAs and dedicated Google Cloud support engineers. AI-powered developer and DBA copilot agents are available to accelerate schema design, query tuning and incident response. CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY ## How FTMO Achieved 10× Performance on GCP A global fintech leader eliminates database bottlenecks and scales to new markets with MariaDB Cloud on Google Cloud. #### “ We achieved improved uptime, performance, resilience, and scalability. We also uncovered bottlenecks that helped us improve performance of our systems by 10x, making expansion to new, large markets possible. “ ###### – Andrej Paučo, Head of Infrastructure, FTMO **THE CHALLENGE** - Slow queries and unpredictable scaling at peak trading hours - Outages directly impacting trader trust and revenue - 1–2 week delay before new trader cohorts could be onboarded - Heavy manual operational overhead slowing product innovation **THE SOLUTION** - MariaDB Cloud deployed via Google Cloud Marketplace - Running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with autoscaling - Multi-zone redundancy for continuous availability - Expert schema tuning and workload optimization support **THE OUTCOME** - New trader cohorts launch immediately, zero waiting period - Expansion into new large markets now possible - Lower costs through autoscaling vs. over-provisioning - Building real-time analytics pipelines on MariaDB Cloud ## 10x **Performance improvement** ## 3x **Faster during peak hours** ## 5x **More concurrent sessions** ## 99.99% **Uptime SLA achieved** FAQ ## Common Questions about MariaDB on Google Cloud ### Can MariaDB on Google Cloud handle both analytics and transactional workloads in the same database? Yes. This is one of MariaDB’s strongest differentiators. MariaDB’s Exa columnar engine enables true HTAP (Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing) within a single database instance. Your OLTP workloads run on InnoDB as normal, while Exa handles analytical queries on the same data using columnar compression optimized for aggregations and full-table scans. On Google Cloud specifically, this means you can reduce reliance on a separate BigQuery pipeline for operational analytics: real-time dashboards query Exa while your application writes transactions to InnoDB, with no ETL lag, no data duplication and no extra GCP services to manage. ### How does MariaDB Cloud support on Google Cloud compare to commercial database vendors like Oracle and SQL Server? MariaDB Cloud on Google Cloud provides enterprise-grade support that competes directly with Oracle and Microsoft: 24/7 access to MariaDB engineering staff (not just a support tier), a 99.99% uptime SLA backed by MaxScale’s sub-10-second automatic failover and guaranteed response times tied to severity. Where Oracle and SQL Server charge substantial per-CPU licensing fees on top of infrastructure, MariaDB Cloud bundles engineering support into a single Marketplace subscription with no separate license cost. For migrations from Oracle or SQL Server, MariaDB’s team provides hands-on schema assessment, compatibility tooling and cutover planning, a level of engagement commercial vendors typically reserve for their largest accounts. ### How does MariaDB on Google Cloud integrate with AI and machine learning workloads? MariaDB Cloud on Google Cloud is purpose-built for the modern AI stack. The pgvector-compatible Vector Store in MariaDB 11.7 lets you store and query high-dimensional embeddings directly in your operational database, enabling retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) without a separate vector database. This integrates naturally with Vertex AI: your application can write embeddings to MariaDB, perform ANN (approximate nearest-neighbor) similarity searches at query time and feed results directly into Gemini or other Vertex AI models. For ML feature stores, Exa’s real-time columnar access means your training pipelines can read fresh features from the same database your application writes to, eliminating the stale-data problem common in batch-based feature pipelines. ### What’s the easiest way to migrate from Oracle to MariaDB on Google Cloud? MariaDB provides a structured Oracle migration path specifically for Google Cloud deployments. The process starts with a schema assessment that maps Oracle data types, identifies PL/SQL stored procedures with MariaDB-compatible equivalents and flags any compatibility gaps upfront. Data migration uses Google Database Migration Service alongside MariaDB’s CDC-based replication to stream changes live during cutover, keeping downtime to minutes rather than hours. MariaDB’s CONNECT storage engine can also federate queries against your existing Oracle instance during a parallel-run validation period, so you can verify data integrity before cutting traffic. Teams migrating from Oracle typically see 60–75% total cost savings by eliminating per-CPU Oracle licensing fees. ![MariaDB x Google Cloud]() ## Ready to Run MariaDB on Google Cloud? Join thousands of enterprises running mission-critical workloads on MariaDB and Google Cloud. Start free and scale as your workload grows. 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