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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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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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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
November 21, 2021
My review on IBM Cloud database
- File storage
- Back up data
- File storage
- Mass data migration
- Object Storage
- Cloud backup
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.
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
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.
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
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).
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
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.
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
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
Compose PostgreSQL for Small SAAS
[It's being used as a] Primary database for a small SAAS company.
- Communication
- Availability
- Tutorials
- PostgreSQL backups and restores could be easier. It would be nice to be able to upload/download a database dump file.
- I don't like the PostgreSQL web-based query tool provided. It has been known to change my queries before executing them.
- I would like to be notified (email) when my database deployment auto-scales. As it is now, I have only found out when my bill is higher.
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
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.
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.
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.
Compose is our database vendor for all our backend systems. Their hosted Mongo solution has powered our products from the early days as a 3 person startup to now being acquired twice and part of an 800+ person organization. Through this scaling we have not had any fulltime DBAs, so we relied on the managed offering to have high uptime and provide consistent service with minimal tinkering.
- High uptime
- Consistent performance
- Same-as-you-bought-it versioning
- Performance recommendation - with us not having a DBA or mongo expert in house, we had to do a lot of learning on our own. After seeing tools like mlab, Mongo's own cloud offering, Scalegrid, etc, the monitoring and performance tools offered by Compose are dead last in the pack.
- More graceful scaling - we operate a fairly large instance of Mongo, and pay handsomely for it each month. But every now and again the Compose team had to intervene due to disk space issues which we expected would have been taken care of by them in advance. Whenever they intervened our performance was diminished from 6-48 hours.
- Better communication - the reps are generally knowledgeable and respond within 12 hours, but when your entire stack relies on Compose as a point of failure it would be appreciated if there was a method to contact when there are urgent issues or outages.
- Proactive assistance - we always had to initialize requests despite the stats all being available to Compose. No recommendations ever were proactively offered despite our large monthly bill and longterm status as a customer.
IBM Compose hosts our production database and provides an interface for our IT team to implement new features to our product.
- The automatic backup system is easy to set up and reliable
- The support team is quick to respond and very helpful
- A simple user interface provides a productive environment for day-to-day tasks
- The user interface is a bit finicky when it comes to quick edits to a dataset
- Arrays are not supported in the SQL terminal of our Postgres environment
February 28, 2018
Stable, fast and has a good price.
IBM Compose manages our MongoDB database, which is the main database technology we use. I've looked for a company to take care of the database part of the application, and IBM Compose seemed to fit.
- Very stable, 100% availability of the MongoDb instances.
- Good & fast support with helpful answers.
- Very good value for our money which is great for startups like ours
- I'd like to see some more online tools for automation of tasks.
- like database shrinking for instance.
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
Compose Review
We originally used Compose to manage our MongoDB deployment. We are a small organization and needed a cost-effective Mongo cluster. When we first started with Compose, we didn't have the engineering bandwidth to manage high availability, backups, etc. ourselves. Using Compose was a good way to get started. Setup was easy and things like versioning and backups were taken care of so we could focus on our application layer - our core competency.
- Ease of setup
- Intuitive interface for deployment management
- Clear pricing tiers and easy billing
- System monitoring - You should use mLab as precedent
- Performance - we experienced connection issues as our read/write ops scaled and had to move to another platform
February 23, 2018
This remains my preferred database-as-a-service
We 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
February 21, 2018
To Compose or Not Compose
We 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.
February 21, 2018
Second to no one - we mean no one.
We use IBM Compose for several web applications that are used to compile terabytes of data across multiple databases. Our entire development group has access and work in conjunction with each other. No other product was able to be used for our particular use and the support team at Compose is amazing.
- Easy to Scale
- Support is able help solve our challenges
- Cost is in line with what we need
- Support wait time can take a bit too long
- Have an assigned Account rep
- The GUI has been a challenge but has been fixed