IBM Cloud Databases enables greater security and management
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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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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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February 19, 2024
IBM Cloud Databases enables greater security and management
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.
December 01, 2023
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- Managed Database Services
- Database Variety
- Security
- UI
- Educational resources
October 07, 2023
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- Enable Higher by levels of compliance
- Security
- Management
- IBM Cloud Hyper Protect DBaaS
September 15, 2023
IBM Cloud DB
- 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
January 07, 2022
IBM Cloud Databases, a safe place for increasing data
- friendly and comprehensive UI
- Helpful customer support
- Security and backup
- Pricing
- Documentation
- 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
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
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
IBM Cloud Database Review
- Speed and productivity
- SaaS and cloud-dev platforms
- Efficiency
- Managed Workloads
- Flexibility
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
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.
April 30, 2021
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- easy to operate
- integration
- optimization
- user interface
- mobile
- price point
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).
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
April 08, 2020
IBM Cloud Databases Review
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
April 07, 2020
IBM Compose MongoDB Review
IBM is our backend database for our company's SaaS platform. It's currently used across our whole organization. We chose to use a MongoDB and Compose provides this for us.
- IBM Compose does a good job of addressing Customer Service issues in a timely manner.
- IBM Compose provides automatic backups which has been very useful at times.
- You can't change the names of deployments after they've been created.
- Sometimes you get over-billed due to mistakes, but customer service resolves this when you reach out.
- Compose has gone down from time to time but overall maintains solid uptime.
January 14, 2020
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).
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
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.
March 06, 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 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 14, 2018
User-friendly
IBM Compose is used to connect Redis and MySQL databases to our analysis software. The software we designed manages wifi-enabled energy consumption devices.
- Provides an easy and consistent way of using connection strings.
- User-friendly.
- Quick to create new databases.
- It is a useful service, no cons which I can recall.
March 13, 2018
Solo Tech Founder's Review of IBM Compose(Compose.io)
IMB Compose(at that time Compose.io) was being used as a MongoDB infrastructure. At the time, it was one of the few Mongo services that offered an affordable cluster that included features needed by real-time applications. By using IBM Compose, I was able to easily set up a Mongo cluster and not worry about maintenance or server ops. It was as simple as setting a few options and copying information into my application's configuration.
- The ease of setup was effortless. For anyone with development experience, a few simple questions such as name and login data will get you set up.
- The web application to manage cluster settings, billing settings and even introspect the data was simple and most importantly worked all the time. This can not always be said for web interfaces of other products.
- When comparing the costs of running the cluster yourself, there will usually be some savings available. In the case of the Mongo clusters, you are charged by the amount of data. While it is fairly generous, it is still easy for a heavily used instance to get costly. Whereas if you were running your own, the CPU or memory would most likely need to be upgraded a lot farther down the line.
March 13, 2018
IBM Compose- What's needed for it to be best of breed
IBM compose is used as an important database where customer data for our Cloud product is stored. It is a vital component of our service.
- It is a solid implementation of Mongo DB.
- The compose dashboard for decision-makers & admins is straightforward and easy to use.
- Terrible customer support. Once, a year ago, Compose was down for 5 hours on a weekend. Three developers were trying to decipher why our site was down. IBM did not bother informing us that Compose was down. It was a tremendous waste of time for us. IBM's Compose team never reached out to us after I expressed my disappointment.
- Encryption at rest is not available. This should definitely part of the feature-set
- IBM compose does NOT support the latest version of MongoDB. It does not even support the previous version of MongoDB. Recently, Compose Support's organization did not have a time estimate for the availability of MongoDB previous version. This is quite surprising. As a customer, we would at least like to know why. Compose competitors have supported more up-to-date versions of Mongo DB