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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.
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The most common users of IBM Cloud Databases are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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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
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
November 21, 2021
My review on IBM Cloud database
- File storage
- Back up data
- File storage
- Mass data migration
- Object Storage
- Cloud backup
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
December 07, 2019
IBM Compose Shines
We use it for our low-traffic cloud data warehousing and reporting on our HRM product. Using Compose made it relatively simple to scale up and down as per traffic. Also the pricing was quite cheap.
Provides a low-cost solution where we can place our data warehouses for multiple products. Tied in with Watson Studio it provides great utility for our data scientists.
Provides a low-cost solution where we can place our data warehouses for multiple products. Tied in with Watson Studio it provides great utility for our data scientists.
- Scaling
- Pricing
- Documentation
- Used to use third-party providers. Not the latest version.
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.
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.
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 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
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 09, 2018
Compose is good but Amazon is better
Currently, 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
March 08, 2018
Quick Database to go with Your App on Heroku
- Easy to set up
- Easy to access from apps on various PaaS-s.
- Affordable
- Lower pricing
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 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.
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 23, 2018
No Worries with Compose
We are using IBM Compose for :
- PostGres: We retain and compute Location Data and queries.
Scaling, backups clustering, and pricing were a problem from other competitors; this is where IBM killed the competition and helped us secure our data
- MongoDB: We retain system logs.
- MySQL: We retain user Data.
- 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
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
Very easy to get started
We provide Software as a Service (http://innovationwall.io) and need to store information in a database. We also decided (for reasons other than) Compose to host our service on IBM Bluemix. Thanks to Bluemix we got introduced to Compose and decided to use their Redis-solution for storing sessions of our users
- Easy to integrate with services running on bluemix.
- Have not yet experienced downtime
- Little to no maintenance
- It's not clear to me how much more the service will cost us if we scale up to more users.
- We might run our service on AWS in the future. It's not clear to me if and how -from a technical point of view- we can keep on using compose since it's packaged with our account we use to host our application. I'm also not sure if it will have a big impact on the performance.
February 23, 2018
IBM Compose
We use IBM compose to host RabbitMQ, Redis and MongoDB databases inside our engineering department to support Node.JS web services that provide data to our Mobile product, Albert.
The Redis Database is used for distributed session management, MongoDB stores all of our persistent data and RabbitMQ is used as a queue to provide data storage stability to operations that may fail and need retrying.
The Redis Database is used for distributed session management, MongoDB stores all of our persistent data and RabbitMQ is used as a queue to provide data storage stability to operations that may fail and need retrying.
- Simple interface for performing basic queries on data
- Easy to get set up
- Great customer support
- The Web Ui is only good for basic operations.
- Easier back up and restore for MongoDB
- Speed up the Web Ui
February 22, 2018
Great service, certainly when you lack db operational expertise.
We 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.