IBM Cloud Databases
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View all 6 featuresDatabase security provisions (87)
8.5
85%
Automated backups (94)
8.4
84%
Database scalability (91)
8.1
81%
Monitoring and metrics (91)
7.4
74%
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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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Database-as-a-Service
8.1
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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.
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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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What are IBM Cloud Databases's top competitors?
Google Cloud SQL, Azure Databases, and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) are common alternatives for IBM Cloud Databases.
What is IBM Cloud Databases's best feature?
Reviewers rate Database security provisions highest, with a score of 8.5.
Who uses IBM Cloud Databases?
The most common users of IBM Cloud Databases are from Small Businesses and the Computer Software industry.
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November 25, 2021
Secure and scalable way to store your data for reasonable price
- Scalability for sure[.]
- Easy to implement[.]
- Crystal clear pricing plans[.]
- A bit cheaper than other products[.]
- Secure place to store your data[.]
- UI responsiveness can be improved[.]
- Customer service can be a bit more responsive[.]
Basically, it makes sure that your application is always performing at its best. We did a small stress-testing on our deployment and Automated storage did great handling emergency [situations]. Luckily, we didn't [have] any major emergencies [in the] production environment, but it still manages well small peaks of usage.
November 21, 2021
My review on IBM Cloud database
- File storage
- Back up data
- File storage
- Mass data migration
- Object Storage
- Cloud backup
This feature is one of the main features of the IBM cloud database. Ram detection and automated storage can help in saving a lot of space. File storage and cloud storage can be more useful if the above feature is there. So, that's why we are using this. It had impacted us very positively in our organization.
January 07, 2022
IBM Cloud Databases, a safe place for increasing data
- friendly and comprehensive UI
- Helpful customer support
- Security and backup
- Pricing
- Documentation
We didn't bother using this feature because our data doesn't need to be migrated.
December 07, 2021
IBM Cloud Database - Best Database Service on the Cloud
- 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.
November 30, 2021
Making Things Easier in Customers Solutions and Tracking Data
- Fast in speed and easy to access for multiple users
- Very comfortable in pricing and best in cheap price tag
- Security is upto higher levels and amazing in large amount of data management
- Easy to scale up and perfect in flexibility
- Unfortunately, Documentation is not easy to understand and need improvement
- Slighyly difficult to do mass data optimization and clouding
- Interface is some time struggling and need improvements
We never use the enhancement of system
configurations because we are working on minimalistic vector data. Sometimes we need to
update pictorial data and that requires little memory but still, it's
manageable for our organization. We are a happy client of IBM and we
will continue until they offer quick and responsive services.
November 20, 2021
Best Option for converting physical databases to Cloud
- 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
- 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
We have successfully implemented the automated storage option and have saved ample time and effort compared to manual.
November 23, 2021
Powerful data warehouse system driving business intelligence
- Manages mixed workloads as needs evolve and work through all the data integration issues[.]
- Strengthened disaster recovery capabilities[.]
- Provided us with a potent infusion of transformational insight and operational efficiency[.]
- The interface could use a little improvement though it doesn't interfere with performance in any way[.]
November 21, 2021
Easy to use and best IBM Cloud database
- 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
November 26, 2021
IBM Cloud Databases are a great choice in the IBM Cloud Ecosystem
- Fully managed
- Highly customizable
- Easily scaled
- Provide more products like Cloud Databases for MySQL
- More UI features and functionality
It is well known how difficult it is to scale a database. IBM Cloud Databases have automated storage capacity increases which is a huge feature to have. This takes one of the hardest aspects, in my opinion, of managing a database away and frees up time for other parts of the software development lifecycle.
November 24, 2021
IBM Cloud Databases provide autoscale to ensure the job is done
- quick
- easy
- cheap
- lack of community support
- compatibility with other tools
- not the most popular option
Life-saving. Adding additional capacity to storage or RAM is hands down definitely one of the biggest features that IBM cloud databases have. Without this function/ feature, the potential consequence would be the instance got killed due to insufficient storage/ RAM and the entire work is being lost due to that.
January 08, 2022
IBMs Cloud Database
- Reliability
- Easy to scale
- Quick to start
- User interface for cloud environments
December 01, 2021
IBM Cloud Databases
- It brings the databases closer to where applications live.
- It has a high availability and secure architecture.
- Daily backups and 24x7 monitoring.
- It also provides online scaling with pay as you go billing.
- The backup needs to be improved.
- Should provide an option for mass migration.
- IBM should provide more detailed documentation for its services and products.
With the automated provisioning of resources IBM Cloud Databases helped us to scale up our servers and to provide a seamless performance and services to our vendors without even thinking about the resources management. It helps us to structure our data with great accuracy and precision. With the automated storage and RAM tracking not only helps us to manage our services and data but also provides our organization with a much better solution for processing and handling large amount of data.
November 25, 2021
Secure cloud management with excellent performance.
- Implementation facilitated with the help of support and IBM team
- High scalability and availability in a completely secure and active cloud
- Strong security
- Great management and reporting
- Active monitoring
- It lacks more detail and tutorial for deploying more advanced features
- Interface can still be improved
January 04, 2022
WORKING WITH IBM
- 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
Honestly , I haven't known this because haven't used large chunks of data to operate. But pretty sure , this feature is a key role of IBM cloud and is very versatile.
November 30, 2021
IBM Cloud Database Review
- Speed and productivity
- SaaS and cloud-dev platforms
- Efficiency
- Managed Workloads
- Flexibility
Security: When done right, the cloud can be more secure than traditional network systems. Scalability: Switching to the cloud means your company has a better ability to scale up or down based on your IT requirements and business plan.
November 25, 2021
Magnificent Database services by IBM Cloud Database
- Can support relational databases (including MySQL and PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (including MongoDB and Apache Couch DB)[.]
- Enables enterprise users to host databases without buying dedicated hardware[.]
- Can be managed by the user or offered as a service[.]
- I would like to see the database copy from running instance[.]
- There should be more files to be supported for uploading data[.]
- In the Last I would like to state that[.]
- 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 did not turn this feature on. The Db we have in place is analytical in nature and not set to production/operational use. This type of Db is still needed for our use cases, but ramping up RAM based on implicit use kinda scares me. Prefer to see the capacity limits, and receive recommendations on capacity, rather than just doing it on its own.
April 21, 2021
Solid choice for AaaS NoSQL hosting
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.
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).
June 15, 2021
Compose Does The Magic While I Stay Focused
- 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
With this features, our database is never overwhelmed and this keeps everything running as it should.
May 23, 2021
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.
May 03, 2021
How IBM lifted an idea into reality
- 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
Presently, we have not used or required auto-scaling, but it is a consideration as we build out and deploy our application more widely. This would relieve the need for constant monitoring of the systems and applications.
May 01, 2021
IBM Cloud Database for High Performance
- Fast response
- Highly scalable
- High performance for larger traffic
- Need some pre-configured database templates
- Easy documentation
- Auto-scaling
It's good for high-traffic websites and streaming platforms, where we need to scale the user data per the sudden user spike. It's good, as it prevents several applications from crashing.
May 02, 2021
Database as a service done right
- 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.
This feature allows us to start small as we were just getting started, instead of committing to a big contract upfront immediately, we were able to start with minimal capacity and as demands grow, the databases are automatically scaled accordingly. This also helps with not having to worry about overgrowing the initial capacity sized and run out of storage space, as this is all automatically taken care of.