There are in particular 3 things that stand out about Zoho CloudSQL:
It’s the first technology that allows customers to interact with their data on the cloud, from another cloud application or from an on-premises one through real SQL.
It supports multiple SQL dialects. We support all the major (and even some not so major) ones: ANSI, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Informix.
With our JDBC/ODBC drivers, developers can access data in the cloud just as easily as if it were stored in a local database.

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