IBM Cloud Databases Pricing

“For Mentorloop as a startup, the low cost has meant that we have been able to get a high quality service for a budget price, so for us the ROI is high. … It is quick to set up, and instantly provides a robust service which is usable for production at a reasonable price, and yet allows options to scale up, with a good name like IBM behind...”

“Also the pricing was quite cheap.

Provides a low-cost solution where we can place our data warehouses for multiple products.”

“If my application had stored more data, the ROI would be very diminishing based on the cost per GB pricing structure. … Amazon RDS costs run on a server resource structure and many times lead to a better cost/ROI/.”

“It's enabled us to scale without an expensive DBA, but at the cost of $10k/mo Compose bills and a fair chunk of time learning how to diagnose performance issues along the way. … Startups will benefit from their reasonable pricing at smaller sizes with high availability, however if anything goes astray they are on their own to solution the problem.

Larger companies may...”

“Decreased the cost on both, sandbox and production Pay as you go, along with price decrease in tier elevation comes very much as a bonus to the technical requirements from the business perspective.”

“Better cost reports, before just increasing to another tier, thus increasing the price. … Negative impact: we had to use a more expensive cloud provider (AWS), because Compose wasn't present in Digital Ocean (cheaper and transparent).”

“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... … Easily integrated Easy to purchase and deploy Price simplicity.”

“IBM Cloud Databases' pricing structure is easy to understand, and if you choose the right product, you can operate your system at minimal cost.”

“Cost for subscription needs to be re-structured Its very hard to connect with ssl.”

“I think the price point is affordable.”

“Good value; low price point helps small SAAS products.”