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IBM Cloud Databases

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What is IBM Cloud Databases?

IBM Cloud Databases are open source data stores for enterprise application development. Built on a Kubernetes foundation, they offer a database platform for serverless applications. They are designed to scale storage and compute resources seamlessly without being constrained by the…

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  • Database security provisions (83)
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  • Database scalability (87)
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  • Automated backups (90)
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  • Monitoring and metrics (87)
    5.5
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What is IBM Cloud Databases?

IBM Cloud Databases are open source data stores for enterprise application development. Built on a Kubernetes foundation, they offer a database platform for serverless applications. They are designed to scale storage and compute resources seamlessly without being constrained by the limits of a…

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What is IBM Cloud Databases?

IBM Cloud Databases are open source data stores for enterprise application development. Built on a Kubernetes foundation, they offer a database platform for serverless applications. They are designed to scale storage and compute resources seamlessly without being constrained by the limits of a single server. Natively integrated and available in the IBM Cloud console, these databases are now available through a consistent consumption, pricing, and interaction model. They aim to provide a cohesive experience for developers that include access control, backup orchestration, encryption key management, auditing, monitoring, and logging.

List of available databases
IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL
IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB
IBM Cloud Databases for Redis
IBM Cloud Databases for EnterpriseDB(EDB)
IBM Cloud Databases for Elasticsearch
IBM Cloud Databases for etcd
IBM Cloud Messages for Rabbit MQ

IBM Cloud Databases Features

Database-as-a-Service Features

  • Supported: Automatic software patching
  • Supported: Database scalability
  • Supported: Automated backups
  • Supported: Database security provisions
  • Supported: Monitoring and metrics
  • Supported: Automatic host deployment

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Google Cloud SQL, Azure Database, and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) are common alternatives for IBM Cloud Databases.

Reviewers rate Database security provisions highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of IBM Cloud Databases are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Claire Adams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The scope of our use case for IBM Cloud Databases spans multiple databases deployed in different environments, including development, testing, and production. We use several platform-supported database engines, such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis, depending on the specific requirements of our applications. Additionally, we leverage managed services and serverless architectures provided by IBM Cloud Databases to accelerate our application development workflows and improve agility in deploying new features and updates.
  • IBM Cloud Databases offers scalable database solutions that can easily accommodate growing data needs.
  • IBM Cloud Databases is a fully managed service.
  • IBM Cloud Databases seamlessly integrates with other IBM Cloud services and solutions.
  • Limited Database Options.
  • Migrating away from IBM Cloud Databases to another provider or on-premises solution can be challenging and may require significant time.
  • Learning Curve.
IBM Cloud Databases is well-suited for hybrid cloud deployments where organizations require seamless integration between on-premises and cloud-based databases. For instance, companies with existing on-premises database infrastructure can leverage the platform's hybrid cloud capabilities to extend their data center to the cloud, enabling hybrid cloud architectures for workload flexibility, disaster recovery, and data synchronization
December 01, 2023

IBM Database (MySQL)

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Managed Database Services
  • Database Variety
  • Security
  • UI
  • Educational resources
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.
October 07, 2023

IBM PAK

Sunil Varma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Enable Higher by levels of compliance
  • Security
  • Management
  • IBM Cloud Hyper Protect DBaaS
IBM Cloud database solutions offer a complete portfolio of managed services for data and analytics — a hybrid, open source-based approach that addresses the data-intensive needs of application developers, data scientists and IT architects to deliver immediate and longer-term benefits.
September 15, 2023

IBM Cloud DB

Sai Teja Settipalli | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • High Availability
  • Developer-Focused Features
  • Functions to perform Advanced Analytics
  • Cost Competitiveness
  • User Interface and Experience can be improved
  • Migrating Data to and from the tool is a little tricky
Data Analytics is one field where I believe IBM Cloud Databases excels at and would love to continue to use this feature.
BENAOUN Mahdi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • friendly and comprehensive UI
  • Helpful customer support
  • Security and backup
  • Pricing
  • Documentation
It's best suited for businesses with an increasing amount of data [that] needs to be secured, organized, centralized, and backed up. I wouldn't recommend start-ups or small businesses or businesses that can self-manage their data.
Sai karthik Satyavarapu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Low latency
  • Easy to setup and migrate
  • Hassle free upgrades and less effort
  • Backup needs to be improved
  • Less documentation
  • We cannot do mass migration at a time we need to execute slots wise
Setup and migration [are] easy and [...] flexible. Easy to use and flexible UI. Security features are also added advantage.
January 04, 2022

WORKING WITH IBM

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Secure and privacy protection
  • Easy to navigate and convenient to use
  • Speed recovery and higher capacity for data
  • Improvised compatibility
  • Can be linked through multiple resources and information
  • More added features for diverse users.
  • More cloud geographic locations
  • End to end encryption
Ibm Cloud are well suited for students and local levels to use and learn. At industrial level , once expertise in working and functioning of cloud is achieved , IBM clouds are one of the most competitive and comparable feature. Development and resources in IBM cloud are outstanding. Functional equivalence. BDA can be helpful in IBM clouds as well as AI connectivity via Watson.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy deployment and initial setup
  • Low latency for transactions
  • Regular security updates are pushed from IBM
  • One stop migration facility
  • Easy to use UI
  • Scalable on demand basis
  • Useful backup and scheduling features
  • Initially, we faced some consistency issues, but later it was fixed with the help from IBM Support Team
  • Documentation needs to be updated with more details on the latest and new features added.
IBM Cloud Databases is well suited for medium to large-sized applications. It has simple steps for migration and deployment, along with useful features on the dashboard for easy management by business users.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Fully managed
  • Highly customizable
  • Easily scaled
  • Provide more products like Cloud Databases for MySQL
  • More UI features and functionality
I think the best use case for using IBM Cloud Databases is when other products in the IBM Cloud ecosystem are being used. It works very well when computing is being used, or any other IBM cloud products really. I could also see these products being really useful in any scenario where a managed database is wanted with little overhead to set it up and manage it.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • quick
  • easy
  • cheap
  • lack of community support
  • compatibility with other tools
  • not the most popular option
IBM Cloud Databases is well suited when the IBM cloud toolset is widely used in your organization and the goal is to store structured datasets into the databases that the end-users are planning to leverage SQL to pull the data out. If the data is unstructured then you should use object storage.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • File storage
  • Back up data
  • File storage
  • Mass data migration
  • Object Storage
  • Cloud backup
The platform is extensive with plenty of options and integrations available and can be used in companies. It can be easily Deployment One Window Solution Central Management. It is very convenient to be able to host both on the same platform, and meetings are typically quite easy to start and reliable. With the help of a firewall, hypervisor-based isolation is possible.
Lavish Garg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • enhanced security
  • enhanced scalability
  • provides identity and access management (IAM) capabilities for serverless apps running in the IBM Cloud
  • Pricing model and memory issues
  • Dashboards could be better
  • Complex Documentation
Well suited for super-low-maintenance NoSQL data storage. Tons of applications just need a 'boring' data layer, meaning that it needs to be easy, fast, and resilient, but we won't be doing anything special with it: Compose is perfect for that. If a highly custom solution was needed (your data storage is the hard part of your application (...but really? _really_? it probably isn't.)), then you might go custom. And of course if you want a relational database, Compose isn't for you.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It provides flexible and Higher performance
  • Easy Backup
  • Its very easy to optimize database in IBM
  • Quick running of application
  • Cost for subscription needs to be re-structured
  • Its very hard to connect with ssl
IBM Cloud database provides a wide range of different databases which makes it a more scalable and more advanced option that is best suited for an organization that wants some database quickly and doesn’t want to waste time in setting things daily. IBM Cloud is the best option for an organization that wants to convert their physical stored database into the cloud.
Ben Holmes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easily integrated
  • Easy to purchase and deploy
  • Price simplicity
  • Monitoring software for Db needs setup time
  • Cost grows quickly
  • Connectivity to our on-premise applications is a struggle
We are using the analytics environment in the cloud for IBM, so it makes most sense to use the cloud based Dbs available. We have some structured data that is important to our analytics, and dragging it down to IBM cloud has had good success. The unstructured data that we need to work with has all the resources it needs for the various cloud Db options.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • I like the automated backups
  • I like the GUI editor
  • There is easy maintenance of databases
  • Compose pricing is favorable
  • The interface is not one of the best.
  • Dashboards could be better
  • Sometimes it is sluggish - responsiveness is not at par
[IBM Cloud Databases with] Compose is a great option for businesses that do not have the resources to host private databases.
May 23, 2021

RethinkDB Compose

Sagiv Frankel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using a RethinkDB hosted solution. Compose gives us a reliable, scalable and redundant database, with no ops needed.
  • Good responsiveness from support.
  • Up to date on best practices (an extra proxy server in my case, default user restrictions). The DB's web UI is easily launchable.
  • Backups.
  • A pricing plan for a simple single instance you can use for testing and QA.
[Well suited for a] small to medium startup wanting to move fast and safely.
Nigel Catterall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very easy to set up
  • Good monitoring
  • Easy to scale
  • Monitoring was difficult to initially locate.
  • Understanding the choices between different database packages
  • Setting up a cloud foundry connection - restored to SSL certification connection
It's very well suited to trialing a database, or databases, allowing you to add subtract and build an infrastructure to suit your need and swap and change as required or desired. Also, it allows you to try different types of data storage easily and experiment with set-up configuration and resources. Web management interface management is clear, clean, and reactive.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cost effective
  • Everything under one roof, having all our data needs taken care of from a single vendor makes management much easier
  • Integrates with IBM Cloud platform natively
  • Does not support Let's Encrypt for secured connection. Currently IBM Cloud Databases only support self-signed certificate, which is more troublesome to configure.
  • Due to compliance requirements, IBM Cloud Databases have a tendency to deprecate and EOL various older versions of the databases offered, sometimes you have very short window to upgrade.
If you are on IBM Cloud, then using IBM Cloud Databases is an obvious choice. It is natively available and offers a wide range of different database products that would cover most common use cases. If you are not on IBM Cloud but are interested to use the databases offered, such as MongoDB, it is still a viable option as sometimes it can be more cost effective compared to alternatives.
Pretty Varughese | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Fast response
  • Highly scalable
  • High performance for larger traffic
  • Need some pre-configured database templates
  • Easy documentation
  • Auto-scaling
It is really good for SAAS applications and high-traffic APIs. Also, we have used it for monitoring servers and e-commerce applications.
April 30, 2021

Cloud Storage

Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • easy to operate
  • integration
  • optimization
  • user interface
  • mobile
  • price point
it helps with off site storage and has very easy recall. it is a fast service that we trust very much. we like the way that it operates and provides access to all things that we need. it offers a lot of options to best suit our business needs which are abundant and diverse. but we enjoy using the system overall.
Jude Allred | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Compose is providing us with an Architecture-As-A-Service solution for persistent, highly-available NoSQL based data storage. We primarily use it to host data for our microservices and Glitch integrations. The ease of use in getting started and the ongoing low overhead of maintaining the product have been perfect. We haven't had a moment of trouble since starting to use the service.
  • Persistent data storage for microservices
  • Fast and easy, but secure, NoSQL storage for integrations and bots
  • Quick setup time, great for rapid prototypes which may graduate to real products and should thus start on a firm foundation.
Well suited for super-low-maintenance NoSQL data storage. Tons of applications just need a 'boring' data layer, meaning that it needs to be easy, fast, and resilient, but we won't be doing anything special with it: Compose is perfect for that. If a highly custom solution was needed (your data storage is the hard part of your application (...but really? _really_? it probably isn't.)), then you might go custom.

And of course if you want a relational database, Compose isn't for you.
Dominik Hurnaus | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a young startup we wanted to focus on our core product and not be held back by infrastructure management and maintenance. This is why we moved our RabbitMQ and (persistent) Redis clusters to compose.io. We no longer have to provide servers, maintenance, monitoring, etc. for those parts of our infrastructure.
  • Robust Redis and RabbitMQ clusters with no downtime within the last 18 months.
  • With RabbitMQ, putting special policies on specific queues was not possible via the admin interface and required contacting their support (The support guys promptly configured those policies, though).
I would definitely recommend using IBM Compose for secondary storage systems or message queues, as the price-performance ratio is unbeatable. We compared quite a few providers and the price-performance ratio with IBM Compose was by far the best.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Databases is being used across my entire organization. I enjoy using the product but there are definitely areas for IBM Cloud to improve. Definitely very little documentation, and not enough examples across the web that support IBM Cloud, therefore, making it harder for smaller companies such as ours to use this product. When first beginning with IBM Cloud, it took us several weeks on the support page to get a good response on simple things that other cloud services would have already solved.
  • IBM Watson
  • App ID
  • PostgreSQL as a service, especially with the IBM cloud user documentation
  • Cloud foundry and react starters
Great with IBM Watson, but still needs more work with app ID and PostgreSQL as a service.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We use IBM Cloud Databases as the core for transactions for our applications, which, in turn, are sold as SaaS. Postgres as a service helps us to focus on our product, reducing maintenance and administration costs and availability.
  • Backups
  • Availability
  • Simplicity
  • Interface
  • Configuration
  • Intermediate offerings
IBM Cloud Databases are well suited for service simplification.
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