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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,6,Removed man-hours from managing database layer
Low-cost for small databases
Have not had to think about investing in scaling DB layer,,Adobe Illustrator CC, GitHub, Amazon CloudFront,No,7,No,Unlike with other vendors, I never felt as though I received exceptional support from Compose / IBM Cloud Databases.Joshua DicksonRethinkDB Compose2018-03-19T14:16:51.917ZWe 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.,9,Quick time to market.,Mlab,Docker, MongoDB,Yes,Product Features
Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
Third-party Reviews,Personally I am a fan of saas products that require the least amount of develops and reliability on in house development.So I would still go for the product with the least amount of friction and most amount of reliability.Sagiv FrankelThe slickest MongoDB provider2018-01-26T18:58:26.102ZWe 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,7,Makes setting up a DB take seconds saving time and money
More expensive than competitors
Allows to not set up an admin panel on certain websites because of ease of use,MongoLab and MongoDB Atlas,MongoDB Atlas, Heroku, GitHub, Shopify, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service),No,Price
Product Features
Prior Experience with the Product
Vendor Reputation,I would check around a little bit more to evaluate other platforms that have friendly graphical user interfaces that perhaps are more economical. Compose does not offer a free trial, so I didn't get the chance to test things out in a sandbox environment before committing. In the future, I would test out a few more options that offer free tiers.Verified UserCompose for your database needs2016-03-24T16:06:50.566ZWe 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,10,We don't have to manage the database and can work on our application
Backup is done all the time so we know we are safe,Cloudant,Heroku, Gradle,5,5,Store user accounts for login
Store application data
Store operate logs,We were able to very easily back and restore instances to perform tests
We were able to easily rollback wrong data by restoring the operational database,We looked at using other kinds of databases beside MongoDB but didn't got to it yet,8,No,Price
Product Features
Product Usability,noVerified UserHosted postgresql/redis/rabbitmq on compose2018-10-04T18:14:57.874ZWe 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).,9,Allowed us to quickly setup PoC demo environment of a platform of ours,Apache SolrVerified UserThe best option if you want to move to production fast, while keeping your data safe and always available2018-03-09T22:58:24.787ZWe 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.,10,Instant production environment data setup, without the need to invest days preparing the setup. Immediate positive ROI on this.
Negative impact: we had to use a more expensive cloud provider (AWS), because Compose wasn't present in Digital Ocean (cheaper and transparent). After some time, we stopped using Compose because we moved back to Digital Ocean.,Aiven,PostgreSQL, RedisAlfred Reinold BaudischSmall dev teams will LOVE Compose!2018-02-22T17:58:40.872ZWe 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,10,Being able to use Compose has saved us about 0.2 FTE of developer time managing db deployments manually.
Support for SSL and encryption made our NIST / ISO infosec compliance a lot easier.,Apache Kafka, Amazon Relational Database Service, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL,Apache Kafka, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Google Cloud Storage, Jitterbit, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Infor CloudSuite Business, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Microsoft Azure, LogglyCarlo QuiñonezCompose.io is pretty good!2018-02-05T19:54:44.250ZMy 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.,10,We're still working on that. ;-),mlab,Google Analytics, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), MongoDBKevin NewmanDoing MongoDB the easy way with Compose2018-03-13T19:10:56.511ZWe 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.,9,The cost for a service with this level of reliability has been outstanding.
The one time that we had an issue, which was back when the product was still MongoHQ, they credited us with a month of service to make things right even though the problem really had minimal impact on our business.David HartBuscando Huellas Review of Compose2018-03-12T19:26:51.432ZIt 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.,10,We didn't waste any time setting up, securing, updating and backing up databases, which is really good if your team is small and time is important.,Amazon DynamoDB and Heroku,DigitalOcean, UploadcareJuan MiretFeels strange to have ever self-hosted Redis and RabbitMQ2018-03-09T17:26:20.116ZAs 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).,10,We no longer have to maintain, upgrade, or deal with downtime of our own Redis and RabbitMQ clusters. In hindsight it feels strange to have ever had self-hosted clusters for those services (where in our case additional latency of a few milliseconds is acceptable).,MongoDBDominik HurnausCompose is good but Amazon is better2018-03-09T13:52:12.805ZCurrently, 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,7,Not being able to solve our issues has cost our company
Ease of use has been a highlight of our experience with IBM Compose
Pricing is an issue when comparing competitors,MySQL,AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Google Analytics, Amazon DynamoDBJuan GarnierPretty solid MongoDB hosting2018-03-05T22:52:50.642ZIt 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.,8,We haven't really shopped around much on this front, but it does seem to do the job at a reasonable price. There are certainly other solutions out there, but we've not taken a look in detail making ROI difficult to determine (ie. any hosted Mongo service would give us the same impact),Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB,AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Aurora, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)Andrew RainesDecent DBaas Platform2018-03-05T22:45:38.255ZWe 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.,5,It’s been positive since we saved the salary of a dba. As a small group that was critical.
Saves cap-ex in that we don’t need to buy and manage the hardware.
Level of scalability available is rather high. To have this type of capacity in a private data center when you need it is unlikely for most.,AWS and MongoLab,GitHub, Trello, AWS Elastic BeanstalkTerry DrozdowskiIBM Compose is great!2018-03-05T22:04:47.407ZWe 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,10,Automatic processing has increased turnaround times
Automatic processing has allowed for us to increase costs for videos,Envision VIP and Google Analytics,Google AnalyticsKennedy ClaytonIBM Compose, an awesome service for running cloud databases2018-03-05T21:15:00.942ZWe 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.,10,Compose had a big impact right from the beginning of our company as it made possible from DB point-of-view to offer world-class reliability of availability to our customers from day 1.
Compose support has helped us solve many difficult issues and helped with DB migrations.
Compose has made it possible for us to move very fast on adding new possibilities to store and retrieve data.,,JIRA Software, New Relic APM, New Relic Insights, Confluent Cloud, IntelliJ IDEA, HipChat, SolarWinds PapertrailKai VirkkiCompose- Highly Recommended2018-03-02T23:08:37.766ZWe 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.,Easy-to-use
Elasticsearch hosting,I don't have any further recommendations at this time- Compose just works for us!,10,Saved 100+ hours training our team on managing elasticsearch and further maintaining it.Matt DunbarYou Can Trust Compose to Handle your Data!2018-02-23T23:14:32.541ZWe 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,6,We don't need to hire database engineers to manage database infrastructure.
We can give our clients a guarantee when it comes to data reliability and security.
Costs are extremely low when compared to the development and support of our product.,MongoDB Atlas and CouchDB,Google Compute Engine, Kubernetes, CouchDBTyler JohnsonNo Worries with Compose2018-02-23T21:09:17.254ZWe are using IBM Compose for :- PostGres: We retain and compute Location Data and queries.- MongoDB: We retain system logs.
- 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,10,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.,Neo4jMohamad NabaaThis remains my preferred database-as-a-service2018-02-23T17:38:49.706ZWe use IBM Compose as a critical component of our IT infrastructure for hosting a cluster of MongoDB instances. This enables us to store off-site user and application data with excellent performance and high availability. The range of options provided by IBM Compose allow us greater choice of technology versus competitors and the ability to instantly scale our offerings.,High availability database-as-a-service
Vast range of supported technologies
Ability to instantly scale resources,Menu options in the platform could be consolidated better,10,IBM Compose has remained viable for businesses I've worked with at a smaller scale, and has no problem scaling to higher demand
The only place I feel IBM Compose has held me back is in producing low latency solutions across all geography, its current AWS / IBM Cloud / Google Cloud data centres could be expanded uponYann アウネ EvesSolid choice for AaaS NoSQL hosting2018-02-22T18:16:38.208ZIBM 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.,8,Saves us time.
It's a low-cost provider at the entry level, but remains fully-featured and secure.
Lets devs provision DBs on their own for microservices, allowing them to move faster, safely.,,FogBugzJude AllredGreat service, certainly when you lack db operational expertise.2018-02-22T15:01:39.081ZWe use IBM Compose for the production environment of our Saas solution. We use MongoDB for our back-end infrastructure. So basically this is a key part of our entire organization since we have one product that relies heavily on a database that is hosted by IBM compose. The business problem that is being solved is just basically that we can offer a persistent state of our service.,Automatic configuration of a replica set for MongoDB. I was set to go immediately with minding the configuration. So basically, without much prior knowledge, I was set up before I knew it with a production-ready mature database setup.
The support was very helpful and efficient when I had questions regarding an issue.
They provide important security features like 2FA authentication, which is almost mission critical for production databases with sensitive data.
Automatic backups and log files! Love it it, easy to find, easy to access.
Everything just works after setting up the database.,I would appreciate if there was some integration to auto-archive log files or backups to a Google Cloud Bucket, Amazon S3 or such. I personally would love to see Google Cloud Bucket integration.
I am not sure if this is technically feasible, but I'd like to be able to upgrade my MongoDB for example to a newer version. For example v3.4 or v3.6, while I am still running version 3.2. Technology is a quick field, so rolling out new versions and upgrading is an essential service.,9,A database was mandatory to build our product (Saas) so in this way, so obviously this created a positive impact on reach our business objectives of building a product.
Since we had a lack of real database management skills in the technical team, IBM composes helped us set up a production-grade database environment with all the important points like auto backup, easy recovery, and easy scaling. This saved us a huge amount of time and money for not having to recruit or hire consultants on helping to set up our database environment.,Heroku, Google Cloud Storage, Google App Engine, Google Compute EngineIan SegersTo Compose or Not Compose2018-02-21T22:12:39.934ZWe use the redis and elasticsearch services. We utilize these by our application services platform. We do not have IT personnel (and don't plan to) thus we prefer hosted/"as a service" platforms/products. We may focus our energies and spend on our product development not IT operations.,Excellent Dashboard - easy to use and manage our services
Excellent Diagnostics - providing up to the second visibility into the status services
High Availability and redundancy is excellent.,Honestly - the only con could be cost vs. some other hosted solutions. But comparing apples to apples it's typically just a little higher premium above others.,9,The ROI has been good. Again, as a hosted service we are not in the biz of maintaining IT operations - rather we're spending $$ on product development. So if you compare a Dev-Ops engineer to cost of a hosted solution, the ROI is significant for smaller business.,Heroku,Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Heroku, Amazon Redshift, PostgreSQL, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Joe RzepiejewskiBest Database Engine2018-02-21T20:13:55.915ZCompose is great. Before it used to take a lot of time for me to manually set MongoDB on my servers. With Compose, I don't spend time setting anything because Compose is ready to be used. MongoDB on Compose is very stable and I am 100% satisfied with it. Moreover, I have never experienced any database issues since I have migrated to Compose.,No need to install MongoDB. It is already installed.
No need to waste our configuring MongoDB because Compose has already done most of the work.
The user interface of MongoDB on Compose is very intuitive and easy to use.,It could be cheaper,10,It is a bit expensive but we are satisfied with its performance.Robson HayashidaDBaaS with Compose, the right choice2018-02-21T17:54:42.424ZWe use MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and RabbitMQ with Compose and that allows us to focus on what we do best—building great apps. It provides us developer agility, DBA productivity, application reliability, performance, and security.,When a developer wishes to provision a database, the steps involved include provisioning compute, storage and networking components, configuring them properly and then installing database software...with Compose you can provision while in a DB environment in 3 steps.
Compose ensures that all databases are operated in the same way, and in keeping with the best practices established by the IT organization. This, frees up the developer and DBA to work on more important things like the application and innovation rather than the boring minutiae of running a database.
Once in operation, complex database operations like resizing a cluster are now a simple API call to Compose and the developer need not concern themselves with the minutiae of how this operation should be performed for the specific database and version.,Support more databases
Support DRP plans
Support Geo replication between datacenters,9,Increase security and performance by 30%
Accelerate the provisioning of a new database by 70%
Reduce operation overhead by 50%,Amazon Relational Database Service,Red Hat Ceph Storage, Red Hat Gluster Storage, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)Guillermo Alvarado Mejía
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