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IBM Cloud Databases

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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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  • Database security provisions (83)
    8.6
    86%
  • Database scalability (87)
    8.3
    83%
  • Automated backups (90)
    7.1
    71%
  • Monitoring and metrics (87)
    5.5
    55%

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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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Features

Database-as-a-Service

Database as a Service (DBaaS) software, sometimes referred to as cloud database software, is the delivery of database services ocer the Internet as a service

7.4
Avg 8.7
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Product Details

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.

List of available databases
IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL
IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB
IBM Cloud Databases for Redis
IBM Cloud Databases for EnterpriseDB(EDB)
IBM Cloud Databases for Elasticsearch
IBM Cloud Databases for etcd
IBM Cloud Messages for Rabbit MQ

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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IBM Cloud Databases Technical Details

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Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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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BENAOUN Mahdi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • friendly and comprehensive UI
  • Helpful customer support
  • Security and backup
  • Pricing
  • Documentation
It's best suited for businesses with an increasing amount of data [that] needs to be secured, organized, centralized, and backed up. I wouldn't recommend start-ups or small businesses or businesses that can self-manage their data.
Database-as-a-Service (6)
38.333333333333336%
3.8
Automatic software patching
N/A
N/A
Database scalability
70%
7.0
Automated backups
90%
9.0
Database security provisions
70%
7.0
Monitoring and metrics
N/A
N/A
Automatic host deployment
N/A
N/A
  • Less backup headaches
  • More efficient data storage
  • Reliable security
20
Our database administrator use IBM Cloud Databases as main provider for storage, backup and data centralization for internal and external use.
12
Our support team are required to have cloud computing and database management skills for both SQL and NoSQL databases.
DevOps, Git and json are also great assets to master IBM Cloud Databases so continuous training and workshops are provided on a monthly basis.
  • Data protection
  • Data backup
  • Easy access
  • Data structuring
  • Hybrid use of RethinkDB and MongoDB
  • Separate backend databases in a MVC solutions
  • Centralize data from different sources into one shard location.
  • Migrate data to document based databases (MongoDB)
  • Gitlab
Our main needs is to integrate IBM Cloud Databases with Gitlab to automate data flows in our pipeline which is gladly supported by IBM.
IBM is our trusted partner which never failed to meet our expectations. Stability, efficiency, usability and security is a must have for our business which is fully provided by IBM Cloud Databases.
Sai karthik Satyavarapu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Setup and migration [are] easy and [...] flexible. Easy to use and flexible UI. Security features are also added advantage.
Database-as-a-Service (6)
86.66666666666666%
8.7
Automatic software patching
80%
8.0
Database scalability
90%
9.0
Automated backups
80%
8.0
Database security provisions
90%
9.0
Monitoring and metrics
90%
9.0
Automatic host deployment
90%
9.0
  • RIO is good as we get good features what we pay for
  • Scalability and flexible
  • UI needs to be improved little bit
UI is easier to use and flexible. AWS EBS is very simple to use and do upgrades and monitor the upgrades easily. I also recommend IBM to implement these.
Infra
Cloud technology, Infra, Windows, Linux
  • ERP
  • web application and Mobile apps
  • Customer Data
  • confidential data
  • flexibility
  • scalability
  • infrasctructure & work loads
  • more customers
  • deployments
  • testing
  • for now we dont have any plans
no idea
Few flaws which i have mentioned earlier in the review if that can be improved it will be one of the best products in the market. (Ex: UI, Cost
January 04, 2022

WORKING WITH IBM

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Ibm Cloud are well suited for students and local levels to use and learn. At industrial level , once expertise in working and functioning of cloud is achieved , IBM clouds are one of the most competitive and comparable feature. Development and resources in IBM cloud are outstanding. Functional equivalence. BDA can be helpful in IBM clouds as well as AI connectivity via Watson.
Database-as-a-Service (6)
36.666666666666664%
3.7
Automatic software patching
N/A
N/A
Database scalability
80%
8.0
Automated backups
N/A
N/A
Database security provisions
70%
7.0
Monitoring and metrics
70%
7.0
Automatic host deployment
N/A
N/A
  • A great positive impact
  • Good to switch through and navigate
  • Secured services
No I haven't yet used other ones more so can't make a judgement
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Currently we do not operate on IBM cloud databases. We had a certification course for cloud functionality and operations at IBM CLOUD which had the hands on experience of storing , retrieveing and authenticationof data using Wattson, API and IBM cloud Databbase storage.
Currently we do not operate on IBM cloud. Any person can basically operate on IBM cloud services after having a brief go through of it. Developers and software analysts can easily grasp and learn and start operating on it. There are few but good skills and command on storage , authentication and supervision required for IBM cloud database operations.
  • Storage
  • Privacy and Security
  • Reliability
  • Conveniency
  • Effeciency
  • Storage of data
  • accessing data via api
  • Storing data in segments and creating buckets
  • listing and organising of data
  • retrieval and access of data
  • Storing and accessing large amounts of data
  • Big data analytics
  • global access of secure data
  • Data and Analytics services
  • Backup and sync
  • optimizers
IBM cloud databases already have integrated services with regards to data and analytics. They support various allocations for different and upcoming technologies to built an interactive framework for ease of access.
Currently we do not use IBM cloud and most of the software companies target their rivals such as amazon and google cloud services though they are at par when it comes to operations and accessibility.
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