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IBM Cloud Databases is used (along with IBM Cloud Object Store) as part of a backend system supporting client, eGrove Education Inc.'s, mobile app which helps high school and college STEM students develop their spatial visualization skills through automatically-graded free-hand sketching in a mobile app.
A CloudFoundry app uses IBM Cloud Databases as a synchronization source/sink and system of record for assigned material (both text and media blob data), course rosters, grading results, etc. (Because of the volume of student-produced sketches, student sketches are stored in Cloud Object Store).
A CloudFoundry app uses IBM Cloud Databases as a synchronization source/sink and system of record for assigned material (both text and media blob data), course rosters, grading results, etc. (Because of the volume of student-produced sketches, student sketches are stored in Cloud Object Store).
- ACID Compliance vs non-ACID compliance of the most popular open-source relational database (MySQL).
- Fully managed solution: no bumbling with server installation/setup/maintenance.
- Reliable high-availability implementation.
- Yet more fine-grained provisioning (but thanks for the improvements!) For example, currently there is a 3-core minimum for dedicated cores.
November 14, 2019
Review of IBM Cloud Databases
We are currently using it as part of product development.
- Easy to provision
- Credentials easy to access
- Easy to scale
- Credential management difficult
- No 'admin' access to database system services. Not sure how to get/change admin features of databases
- Reporting is unclear. It is hard to determine when/where I was running out of resources and getting database connection refused reasons
We primarily use PostgreSQL, Elastic, Redis, and Mongodb for our applications.
- Easy to provision
- Auth with certs
- Replication
- More features than just the open source versions
- HIPAA compliance
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
November 11, 2019
IBM Cloud Databases Review
Currently, we are using Mlab for our products. Hence we are looking for alternatives as it's moving to MongoDB atlas. The price structure with IBM seems quite suitable for us as we are still a growing company. At the same time, we are looking for easy integration between Redis and elastic search with IBM cloud databases for our product development. Hence, we start to research and experimenting between IBM Cloud Database and other providers.
- I think the price point is affordable.
- Easy to create a service.
- I find it hard to establish the connections compared to Redis or MongoDB atlases.
- Better documentation.
October 31, 2019
My journey with IBM Cloud Database
We are using IBM Cloud Databases across different departments. Currently, it's mainly used for POCs and to implement Cloud-Native architecture. We are using Cloudant and PostgreSQL. IBM Cloud Databases provide us easy to use redundancy and point in time recovery.
- Strong backup strategy
- Different database options including SQL and NoSQL
- Fast database provisioning
- Reduced the need for DBA
- Would like more database options added, e.g Cassandra DB
- Limited data centre options
- No data browser available for PostgreSQL
February 23, 2019
Compose Review
We use Compose extensively to host our application's database layer which is implemented in MongoDB. MongoDB from Compose helps us in two ways: first of all, it removed significant overhead in having to think about monitoring and maintaining our database systems. Compose also has excellent GIU tools (though they can be a bit slow with large queries) for working with MongoDB.
- Database-Interaction GUI best we've worked with
- Service has been reliable
- Pricing Is low enough to not think about hosting our own DB layer
- Customer service has been lacking at times
- Technical issues: backups have not always happened on schedule, and customer data has been lost
- Pricing for follow-on GBs is high
March 08, 2019
RethinkDB Compose
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.
March 05, 2019
The slickest MongoDB provider
We use it to easily manage our Mongo hosting and navigate through data. It is primarily used by our development department. When customer service issues can not be addressed through our admin interfaces, we use Compose to easily change or add data. Compose also provides a solution that bills simply and offers Mongo hosting with limited set up.
- User interface is excellent
- Fast to use
- Easy to set up and connect to other tools such as Heroku
- Newer MongoDB versions
- Easier migration options
- Free tier or smaller tiers
February 25, 2019
Compose for your database needs
We are using Compose.io to host our MongoDB database backing our web application. The software team that I lead is using Compose.io and administrates the database. We really don't need to do much since everything is handled for us.
- Running our database 24/7
- Update the software version
- Backup and restore
- Support answer quickly and to the point
- Migrations when adding new features
October 04, 2018
Hosted postgresql/redis/rabbitmq on compose
We need managed MongoDB service.
- Simplifies/eliminate the need to administer database services
- Scalability when you need it, very easy to increase service limit/size/etc.
- Easy out of the box backups
- Cost for smaller deployments. Running minimal instances of redis, mongo, postgresql costs more than ordering a simple VM and installing youself.
- Managed services sometimes lack plugins (eg custom postgresql, rabbitmq extensions for specialized tasks).
March 09, 2018
The best option if you want to move to production fast, while keeping your data safe and always available
We were using Compose PostgreSQL and Compose Redis as the data source for all of our stack. We have a messaging sequencer platform, a bot engine platform and Compose Redis was used as a session store and message sequencer and PostgreSQL as the transactional and permanent store.
- Instant setup: configuring and setting up a production environment for PostgreSQL can be an expensive and time consuming task, with Compose we just clicked "new instance".
- Backups: same as instant setup - no need to worry about creating a backup flow. Backups are always available in the Compose dashboard and also accessible via an API for additional storage (i.e. move to S3)
- High Availability: harder than setting up backup and monitoring, is setting up HA for PostgreSQL, since it doesn't have it out of the box, and there aren't official tools. Compose abstracts the setup putting multiple instances behind HAProxy, and your application doesn't even have to worry about changing instances.
- Scaling
- 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.
February 22, 2018
Small dev teams will LOVE Compose!
We started using Compose because we were looking for a RethinkDB provider. Although we eventually stopped using RethinkDB and migrated the app to MongoDB, our experience with Compose was great and we stuck with Compose. The databases power internal back-office apps that are used by the whole company. We have a small development team and using Compose let us quickly and easily setup new deployments and access/manage existing deployments using their GUI, saving us time and letting the engineering focus on writing code - not managing servers.
- Creating production-ready deployments is easy
- The database consoles are intuitive and easy to use for new users
- Creating and restoring backups is easy
- Migrating data between deployments is done through the GUI
- Hosted version lacks integration with corporate Single Sign On (SSO)
- Doesn't offer Kafka deployments
February 05, 2018
Compose.io is pretty good!
My client uses IBM Compose to power their startup presentation software. Their application is built on meteor.js which uses Mongo DB as it's primary data store. They needed something reliable, fast and scalable, so we went with IBM Compose. Compose was incredibly easy to set up, and billing is straightforward, easy to understand.
- Easy to set up.
- Scaling is easy to configure.
- Solid reliability.
- It'd be nice if there was an easier way to set up a low cost or free testing or staging environment to match with the production environment. A "clone to staging" feature would be amazing.
March 13, 2018
Doing MongoDB the easy way with Compose
We use Compose for both Mongo databases and Redis databases. For each type of database, we run development, test, and production instances. Basically, it lets me have a very robust database without having a DBA or Dev Ops team.
- Easy to create a database within a few minutes. Particularly nice if you just need one for a few hours.
- Very easy to copy data from one instance to another.
- Backups are automatic; do not impact system performance when they happen and are very quick and easy to restore.
- I find some of the documentation to be a little vague and not clearly versioned or time-stamped. As an example, you needed a particular version of the Node Mongo driver to use the connection string with multiple load balancer addresses. The documentation said that "older versions may not work" or words to that effect but was not specific about which one did work.
March 12, 2018
Buscando Huellas Review of Compose
It is used to host the database of a web application to find lost dogs in Argentina. It's the main database of the company.
- It's easy to set up and administrate
- Automatic backups
- Fast and secure without hassle
- I'm really happy with the actual product and nothing comes to my mind that could improve it.
- The best feature is... I set it up the first time and voila not used it much after that... which is good. It means it's easy and works well.
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).
March 09, 2018
Compose is good but Amazon is better
Currently, we are using Compose to host our data which allows us to scale our sports data up pretty fast. We use MySQL and Mongo for real-time updates which users can see immediately on the front end. The data feed we get is the core of our business so it is very important.
- Database options
- Fast scaling
- Security
- Cost are not inline with Amazon or Google
- Customer service is very slow and only done via email
- Customer service usually doesn't solve the issue
March 05, 2018
Pretty solid MongoDB hosting
It is used primarily to store/retrieve sports feed data by our APIs so that we can make the data available to our users via the mobile apps. It allows us to query data in a way we cannot within MySQL (our primary data store) as we can store documents rather than having to normalise it.
- Web interface is pretty good for basic querying, which means other tooling is not required.
- Being able to rely on Infrastructure as a Service means we don't have to spend time looking after this system ourselves.
- Upgrading Mongo instances can be a little troublesome depending on the version upgrade being done. In the end we had to resort to doing this ourselves via command line scripts because the online interface was not capable.
- The web interface, particularly for querying, is a little slow.
March 05, 2018
Decent DBaas Platform
We are using the Mongo DB cloud deployments and Redis for all our application development architecture. We started using Compose well before it was acquired by IBM. Applications developed include anything we do to support the business and customers.
- Compose is reliable. Zero problems with DB stability or being down due to some outage.
- The console is a great tool for exploring your database - from its contents to admin information such as connections and cpu load.
- All the admin tools you need to get stuff done work really well.
- Super easy to clone a new DB for development or support to test an issue w/on it interfering with production.
- UX could be improved. Takes quite a few links to navigate through deployments to individual databases.
- A free form query window would be really nice. At least for mongo it’s limited to the collection your viewing Would be nice to be able to change as necessary.
- Integration with third-party DevOps tools like Datadog and SignalFX would be really nice.
March 05, 2018
IBM Compose is great!
We use the product to time code the transcripts for our videos. This is extremely helpful since it is an automatic system now. It's decreased the manual effort we've had to put in, as well as decreased the wait time for video and transcript analysis. Our clients love how quick the process is!
- Speed of delivery
- Accuracy
- None I can think of
We are using IBM Compose to host several of our databases that are an integral part of our service. We are using both different databases and messaging services that Compose has to offer. By using IBM Compose, we're able to concentrate more on solving the business problems for our customers and leaving most of the database maintenance and hosting work to a company that has totally dedicated to just those things and doing them awesomely.
- IBM Compose has managed to create a service with all the related automation and monitoring around it that makes it possible to have reliable and highly available databases running in the cloud.
- Compose support is great and very professional, but still keeping a personal touch to it.
- IBM Compose isn't just a one trick pony, there's support to a wealth of different popular databases and messaging services, so you can have most if not all of your DB needs covered by a single provider.
- As IBM Compose is adding more and more databases that it supports, they might not have been able to move as quickly as before on supporting the latest versions of certain databases, like for example MongoDB.
- More options for storing DB backups would be great. For example possibility to get Compose to send them to customer's S3 bucket. And option to select what tables/collections to have in the backup would be nice for those cases where certain data is more or less ephemeral and not essential when restoring from a backup.
- Shrinking down a MongoDB instance's storage after deleting a lot of data is a pain! This is mostly due to how MongoDB is built, but Compose could figure out a simple to use interface for doing this by push of a button.
March 02, 2018
Compose- Highly Recommended
We rely on elastic search for licensed technology we host for clients. It's the one piece of the infrastructure our internal team doesn't have extensive experience with.
Even though it's the place where we have the least experience, it's also the place where we run into the least challenges. I can count on one hand how often it has had an outage, and we've literally never had server / configuration issues.
Even though it's the place where we have the least experience, it's also the place where we run into the least challenges. I can count on one hand how often it has had an outage, and we've literally never had server / configuration issues.
- Easy-to-use
- Elasticsearch hosting
- I don't have any further recommendations at this time- Compose just works for us!
February 23, 2018
You Can Trust Compose to Handle your Data!
We use IBM Compose MongoDB servers for one of our web-based software products. It allows us to focus on improving the product and not worry about whether our data is secure and accessible by our clients. This software is used in an on-premise/dedicated instance fashion, so the MongoDB servers are used by multiple instances of the software. We can continue to expand while using IBM Compose to host our data.
- Regular backups of our data
- Multiple access points for higher availability
- Wonderful web-based GUI for accessing and modifying data
- Powerful server instances with enough dedicated RAM to handle any load thrown at it
- Specific control over the amount of RAM and storage being used
- High priced versus some competitors
- CouchDB support
February 23, 2018
No Worries with Compose
We are using IBM Compose for :
- PostGres: We retain and compute Location Data and queries.
Scaling, backups clustering, and pricing were a problem from other competitors; this is where IBM killed the competition and helped us secure our data
- MongoDB: We retain system logs.
- MySQL: We retain user Data.
- MySQL: We retain user Data.
Scaling, backups clustering, and pricing were a problem from other competitors; this is where IBM killed the competition and helped us secure our data
It is being used across the whole technical solution and as a web service.
- Pricing
- Clustering
- Scaling -> Load Balancers
- Reduce need for human maintenance
- Pricing has been increasing lately. IBM Compose is in much in need for a control panel and documentation
IBM Cloud Databases (formerly Compose) Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
About IBM Cloud Databases (formerly Compose)
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.
Different versions of IBM Cloud Databases are available for PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, etcd, and MongoDB.
Different versions of IBM Cloud Databases are available for PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, etcd, and MongoDB.
Categories: Non-Relational Databases, Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)
IBM Cloud Databases (formerly Compose) Competitors
AWS RDS, AzureDB, GCP Cloud SQL
IBM Cloud Databases (formerly Compose) Technical Details
| Operating Systems: | Unspecified |
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| Mobile Application: | No |