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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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2022
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View all 6 features- Database security provisions (80)8.383%
- Automated backups (87)8.383%
- Database scalability (84)8.080%
- Monitoring and metrics (84)7.474%
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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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Frequently Asked Questions
Google Cloud SQL, Azure Database, and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) are common alternatives for IBM Cloud Databases.
Reviewers rate Automated backups and Database security provisions highest, with a score of 8.3.
The most common users of IBM Cloud Databases are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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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.
83.33333333333334%
8.3
- Saves us time.
- It's a low-cost provider at the entry level, but remains fully-featured and secure.
- Lets devs provision DBs on their own for microservices, allowing them to move faster, safely.
We were comparing them against other Architecture As A Service providers. SSL connections to the database were essential, which eliminated most of the playing field, and given that we sought out the lowest-cost provider with an acceptable web management UI. Compose won on these fronts.
While we haven't made use of this yet, it's an important component for our security profile. Knowing that VPC support is available for the database connection means that we have an extra layer of protection as our data travels through the internet, giving us increased security redundancy. This has been a blocker for us in the past when considering other cloud database solutions.
Using a DBaaS is the best practice today. There's little to no reason to be hosting your own databases and managing all of the infrastructure that go along with it. Cloud DBaaS providers are the way forward, not only in saving time and costs, but also in providing better performance and redundancy than can commonly be achieved with self-hosted databases.
Implementation was easy and smooth, I had no issues connecting with the cloud databases, managing their schemas, etc. Getting the connection working took pretty much as much time as I expected-- there was a low barrier to entry and it was easy to get the connection details.
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Basic (free)
We didn't seek advanced usages of databases beyond a persistent and reliable key/value store, and we had in-house experience sufficient to work with that sort of database without additional help. The support documents and whatnot offered were sufficient to our needs.
If we were to expand our use of the cloud databases beyond the abilities of our in-house technical knowledge, we'd consider upgrading our support tier.
I haven't interacted with IBM support personnel. Honestly this speaks to the strength of the documentation and the intuitiveness of the web application itself.
- IBM Cloud Docs
- Ability to check uptime status for IBM Cloud products
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
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6.2
- Overall, okay.
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Yes, however setting up the database due to the IBM cloud user was difficult in terms of allowing read/write permissions since there isn't a superuser that we have access to. Also, when whitelisting IP addresses it was impossible in production when using cloud foundry since we don't get a static IP address.
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Took more time than expected and not many detailed docs or examples from the public. One important task may be to create more tutorials that individuals follow. This may help increase the number of users.
For example whitelisting IP addresses and giving Read/Write permissions were more difficult and complex than should be.
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Advanced
IBM Cloud support is very quick in responding to your questions and concerns. In the past I’ve had issues that brought a large engineering team together from IBM to fix the problem. This tier of support is important to help fix issues within the IBM Cloud Database and time also help implement features within your application. However, I do believe if there was more documentation and tutorials online than the tier of support wouldn’t be required.
What I thought of being a simple task of giving Read/Write permissions to ibm-cloud-user ended up being a very difficult task. It took a lot of hunting on the Docs to find the correct answer and left me to contact support. Their agents on the 24/7 support chat weren’t able to solve my problem but they were nice enough to create a ticket and have their engineers walk me through the process
- IBM Cloud Docs
- IBM Cloud product demos and tutorial videos
The Docs and IBM Cloud tutorials have helped me throughout my implementation of IBM Cloud services. I do hope these tutorials are expanded to help reach a larger audience of developers.
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.
35%
3.5
- I think we've received a positive ROI using IBM Compose. It has been a fairly cost-effective and scalable solution for our database needs, which is why we've stuck with Compose for 3+ years now.
All our databases are hosted on Compose. We haven't seen a reason to switch providers, however, we have compared with some others and Compose seems to be the best from a cost and reliability standpoint.
The implementation was fairly smooth and straight forward. It took about as much time as we expected and didn't run into any unforeseen issues. There have been a couple of instances that required us to reach out to the support team, but the support team was responsive and helpful and we were able to resolve our questions quickly.
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Basic (free)
We didn't feel we needed more support given our engineering team, but always knew we had the option of upgrading support if necessary.
IBM and Compose support have been good in the times we have had to reach out. Occasionally we've had a billing issue which was resolved very easily and quickly by the support team. We also had an issue of not being able to download database backups at one point, but we reached out to support and they resolved this for us as well.