Google Cloud

Elasticsearch – Snapshot and Restore

No need to explain what is a snapshot and restore, how much they are important to any platform, software, database, aso. In this blog, I will show you how to take snapshots of your Elasticsearch cluster and how to restore.

Google Cloud Spanner – inserting data

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I've created a Google Cloud Spanner database and inserted a few rows from the GUI. This is definitely not a solution fo many rows and here is a(…)

Google Cloud Spanner – no decimal numeric data types

By Franck Pachot . Google Cloud Spanner is a distributed relational database focused on scalability without compromising consistency and integrity. It is available only as a managed service in Google Cloud. Basically, the idea is to keep the scalability advantages(…)

A free persistent Google Cloud service with Oracle XE

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I've listed several free online services which run an Oracle XE so that you can test your SQL easily. You may want use Oracle XE further, with full(…)

Google Cloud Platform instances and Oracle Database

By Franck Pachot . When it comes to choose a cloud instance to run Oracle Database, you want to be able to run your workload on the minimum CPU cores. This is why in a previous(…)