Likelihood to Recommend Less Appropriate Scenario: 1) Small Scale or Low Budget Projects 2) Organizations with limited expertise in cloud technologies may find the learning curve steep, especially if they are not familiar with the IBM Cloud platform 3) If database requirements are highly dynamic and change frequently, the comprehensive features and management provided by IBM Cloud Databases might be overkill. A more flexible, self-managed solution could be preferable for adapting to rapid changes.
Read full review I would recommend
MongoDB Atlas to every company who have a significant need in the NoSQL database and do not want to manage their infrastructure. Using
MongoDB Atlas can significantly reduce your management time and cost, which saves valuable resources for other tasks. It also suits a smaller company as
MongoDB Atlas scales up and down very quickly.
Read full review Pros The ease of setup was effortless. For anyone with development experience, a few simple questions such as name and login data will get you set up. The web application to manage cluster settings, billing settings and even introspect the data was simple and most importantly worked all the time. This can not always be said for web interfaces of other products. Read full review DB Provisioning. DB Management. Gene Baker Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer
Read full review Cons Better cost reports, before just increasing to another tier, thus increasing the price. This is critical for early stage startups, where budget is tight. Add more data center options. As a comparison, a similar service, Aiven.io has dozen more options than Compose (basically all big cloud providers). We moved from AWS to Digital Ocean, which made us stop using Compose, since Compose forces us to be either on IBM or AWS. Read full review As an independent entity, MongoDB Atlas is not included in existing subscriptions from AWS or Azure, requiring an additional support plan and reliance on a third party. Read full review Likelihood to Renew IBM is our trusted partner which never failed to meet our expectations. Stability, efficiency, usability and security is a must have for our business which is fully provided by IBM Cloud Databases
Read full review Usability It is great the only things I have stumbled upon is the non standard port 80 they use and sometimes expired SSL certificate.
Read full review Support Rating Support is helpful enough, but we haven't always had questions answered in a satisfactory manner. At one time we realized that Compose had stopped taking database snapshots on its two-per-day schedule, and had in fact not taken one for many days. Support recognized the problem and it was fixed, but the lack of proactive checks and the inability to share exactly what happened has caused us to look elsewhere for production work loads
Read full review We love
MongoDB support and have great relationship with them. When we decided to go with
MongoDB Atlas, they sent a team of 5 to our company to discuss the process of setting up a Mongo cluster and walked us through. when we have questions, we create a ticket and they will respond very quickly
Read full review Alternatives Considered The reason why I choose IBM Cloud Databases is that the IBM cloud toolset is already being used in other functions of the company and by using IBM Cloud Databases, the other cloud tools are better embedded and integrated. If the company is set to use amazon tools, I would go for rds.
Read full review MongoDB Atlas has been in the market for very long time and there are bunch of documentation, training and support for it. It also is specifically designed for the use case similar to our project and big companies in the market uses them for very high load which made us confident about our choice.
Read full review Return on Investment Prove use cases prior to administering entire platform, obtain ROI faster Able to achieve the technological components of our advanced analytics team without full scale purchase of AI platform Developed several studies to prove out cloud Db value, speed to deploy Read full review Improved our maintainability Reduced daily work compared to self-hosted solutions Reasonable pricing compared to value Read full review ScreenShots