>db-g1-small
>db-n1-highmem-2
>db-n1-standard-8
>D32 Database Instance (16GB RAM)
>Tier D0, D1, D2, D4, D8, D16, D32
What's up with cloud instance naming schemes? I get this is kind of similar to Amazon, but man, I bet these are really unwieldy in conversations esp. if someone is new to a platform.
You'll still see instance size names for a while though. I think D0-D32 are for first generation of CloudSQL (which is MySQL only). db-* are for second generation and match GCE instance names.
There's at least 2 performance dimensions for provisioning an instance: vCPUs and memory. Often also GPUs, local SSDs, local HDDs. And then you have multiple generations of hardware, which aren't 100% comparable to each other.
So coming up with a "fully systematic" naming scheme is not really possible without listing all the parameters, and then you lose the benefit of having a name.