IBM Cloud Databases enables greater security and management
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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…
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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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Google Cloud SQL, Azure Database, and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) are common alternatives for IBM Cloud Databases.
Reviewers rate Database security provisions highest, with a score of 8.6.
The most common users of IBM Cloud Databases are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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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
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 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.
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 02, 2018
Compose just works and has an easy UI
We build a social media app and we have our main and develop MongoDB databases in Compose.
- Easy UI
- Easy on demand and automatic backups
- Database monitoring
- The URL of the accounts remains with the name we set first time we use the account. It would be better to be able to change this URL.
February 21, 2018
Best Database Engine
Compose 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
February 21, 2018
DBaaS with Compose, the right choice
We 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
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.