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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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IBM Cloud Databases enables greater security and management

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 19, 2024
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The scope of our use case for IBM Cloud Databases spans multiple databases deployed in different environments, including development, testing, and production. We use several p...
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Claire Adams
Engineer - Information Technology
System Engineer
SAIC
IBM Cloud Databases3 years of experience

IBM Database (MySQL)

Rating: 6 out of 10
December 1, 2023
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Manager
IBM Cloud Databases1 year of experience

IBM PAK

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 7, 2023
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Sunil Varma
Employee - Information Technology
GRADUATE ENGINEER TRAINEE
Sterlite technology
IBM Cloud Databases1 year of experience

IBM Cloud DB

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 15, 2023
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Sai Teja Settipalli
Engineer - Engineering
Data Engineer
Exeevo Inc
IBM Cloud Databases1 year of experience

IBM Cloud Databases, a safe place for increasing data

Rating: 7 out of 10
January 7, 2022
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BENAOUN Mahdi
Manager - Engineering
Software Developer
Primatec Engineering
IBM Cloud Databases2 years of experience

One More great Product from IBM (Cloud database) with multiple options.

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 5, 2022
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Sai karthik Satyavarapu
Consultant - Information Technology
Senior Technical Specialist
HCL Software
IBM Cloud Databases3 years of experience

WORKING WITH IBM

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 4, 2022
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Team Lead
IBM Cloud Databases1 year of experience

IBM Cloud Database - Best Database Service on the Cloud

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 7, 2021
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Shivani Pandey
Engineer - Information Technology
Project Engineer
Wipro Limited
IBM Cloud Databases3 years of experience

IBM Cloud Database Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 30, 2021
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IBM Cloud Databases are a great choice in the IBM Cloud Ecosystem

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 26, 2021
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IBM Cloud Databases2 years of experience

IBM Cloud Databases provide autoscale to ensure the job is done

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 24, 2021
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IBM Cloud Databases4 years of experience

My review on IBM Cloud database

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 21, 2021
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Kunnath Rahul
Engineer - Information Technology
Software Engineer
Accenture
IBM Cloud Databases1 year of experience

Easy to use and best IBM Cloud database

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 21, 2021
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Lavish Garg
Analyst - Engineering
Cyber Security
Euinac
IBM Cloud Databases2 years of experience

Best Option for converting physical databases to Cloud

Rating: 7 out of 10
November 20, 2021
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Radhamohan Garg
Employee - Information Technology
GM
Birla Precision Technology
IBM Cloud Databases2 years of experience

IBM cloud databases easy to integrate and experiment with

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 26, 2021
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Ben Holmes
Supervisor - Other
Business Intelligence Supervisor
Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield
IBM Cloud Databases3 years of experience
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Claire Adams
System Engineer
SAIC (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
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Manager in Other
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
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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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DB2 is a family of relational database software solutions offered by IBM. It includes standard Db2 and Db2 Warehouse editions, either deployable on-cloud, or on-premise.

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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

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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.

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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 Database security provisions highest, with a score of 8.7.

The most common users of IBM Cloud Databases are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Scalability: Users have appreciated the scalability of IBM Cloud Databases, noting that it can easily accommodate growing data needs. They find the ability to scale on-demand based on requirements to be a significant advantage.

Fully Managed Service: The fully managed aspect of IBM Cloud Databases is well-received by users as it simplifies the database management process, allowing them to focus on other aspects of their business without worrying about database maintenance.

User-Friendly Interface: The user interface of IBM Cloud Databases is praised for being friendly, comprehensive, and easy to navigate. Users value how the intuitive design contributes to a seamless experience and efficient task completion.

Challenging Migration Process: Some users have found migrating away from IBM Cloud Databases to be time-consuming and challenging, with a learning curve associated with the process. They also mention difficulties in moving data to and from the platform.

User Interface and Experience Concerns: Reviewers express dissatisfaction with the user interface and experience of IBM Cloud Hyper Protect DBaaS, suggesting that improvements are needed in this area. Migrating data to and from the tool is also mentioned as a tricky task.

Cost Competitiveness and Data Migration Issues: Users highlight the need for improvements in cost competitiveness, UI features, and efficient data migration. They also mention a lack of documentation and challenges related to mass migrating data at once.

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IBM Cloud Databases enables greater security and management

Rating: 9 out of 10
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February 19, 2024
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Claire Adams
System Engineer
SAIC (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
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IBM Cloud Databases
3 years of experience
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IBM Cloud Databases is well-suited for hybrid cloud deployments where organizations require seamless integration between on-premises and cloud-based databases. For instance, companies with existing on-premises database infrastructure can leverage the platform's hybrid cloud capabilities to extend their data center to the cloud, enabling hybrid cloud architectures for workload flexibility, disaster recovery, and data synchronization

IBM Database (MySQL)

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
December 01, 2023
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Verified User
IBM Cloud Databases
1 year of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
Less Appropriate Scenario: 1) Small Scale or Low Budget Projects 2) Organizations with limited expertise in cloud technologies may find the learning curve steep, especially if they are not familiar with the IBM Cloud platform 3) If database requirements are highly dynamic and change frequently, the comprehensive features and management provided by IBM Cloud Databases might be overkill. A more flexible, self-managed solution could be preferable for adapting to rapid changes.

IBM PAK

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 07, 2023
SV
Sunil Varma
GRADUATE ENGINEER TRAINEE
Sterlite technology (Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
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IBM Cloud Databases
1 year of experience
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IBM Cloud database solutions offer a complete portfolio of managed services for data and analytics — a hybrid, open source-based approach that addresses the data-intensive needs of application developers, data scientists and IT architects to deliver immediate and longer-term benefits.

IBM Cloud Databases, a safe place for increasing data

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
January 07, 2022
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BENAOUN Mahdi
Software Developer
Primatec Engineering (Automotive, 501-1000 employees)
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IBM Cloud Databases
2 years of experience
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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.

WORKING WITH IBM

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 04, 2022
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Verified User
IBM Cloud Databases
1 year of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

IBM Cloud Database - Best Database Service on the Cloud

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 07, 2021
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Shivani Pandey
Project Engineer
Wipro Limited (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
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IBM Cloud Databases
3 years of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud Databases is well suited for medium to large-sized applications. It has simple steps for migration and deployment, along with useful features on the dashboard for easy management by business users.

IBM Cloud Databases are a great choice in the IBM Cloud Ecosystem

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 26, 2021
Verified User
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Verified User
IBM Cloud Databases
2 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
I think the best use case for using IBM Cloud Databases is when other products in the IBM Cloud ecosystem are being used. It works very well when computing is being used, or any other IBM cloud products really. I could also see these products being really useful in any scenario where a managed database is wanted with little overhead to set it up and manage it.

IBM Cloud Databases provide autoscale to ensure the job is done

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 24, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Databases
4 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud Databases is well suited when the IBM cloud toolset is widely used in your organization and the goal is to store structured datasets into the databases that the end-users are planning to leverage SQL to pull the data out. If the data is unstructured then you should use object storage.

My review on IBM Cloud database

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 21, 2021
KR
Kunnath Rahul
Software Engineer
Accenture (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Databases
1 year of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
The platform is extensive with plenty of options and integrations available and can be used in companies. It can be easily Deployment One Window Solution Central Management. It is very convenient to be able to host both on the same platform, and meetings are typically quite easy to start and reliable. With the help of a firewall, hypervisor-based isolation is possible.

Easy to use and best IBM Cloud database

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
November 21, 2021
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Lavish Garg
Cyber Security
Euinac (E-Learning, 51-200 employees)
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IBM Cloud Databases
2 years of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for super-low-maintenance NoSQL data storage. Tons of applications just need a 'boring' data layer, meaning that it needs to be easy, fast, and resilient, but we won't be doing anything special with it: Compose is perfect for that. If a highly custom solution was needed (your data storage is the hard part of your application (...but really? _really_? it probably isn't.)), then you might go custom. And of course if you want a relational database, Compose isn't for you.

Best Option for converting physical databases to Cloud

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
November 20, 2021
RG
Radhamohan Garg
GM
Birla Precision Technology (Automotive, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Databases
2 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud database provides a wide range of different databases which makes it a more scalable and more advanced option that is best suited for an organization that wants some database quickly and doesn’t want to waste time in setting things daily. IBM Cloud is the best option for an organization that wants to convert their physical stored database into the cloud.

IBM cloud databases easy to integrate and experiment with

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 26, 2021
BH
Ben Holmes
Business Intelligence Supervisor
Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees)
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Verified User
IBM Cloud Databases
3 years of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
We are using the analytics environment in the cloud for IBM, so it makes most sense to use the cloud based Dbs available. We have some structured data that is important to our analytics, and dragging it down to IBM cloud has had good success. The unstructured data that we need to work with has all the resources it needs for the various cloud Db options.

How IBM lifted an idea into reality

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
May 03, 2021
NC
Nigel Catterall
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Illuminates.One (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Databases
1 year of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
It's very well suited to trialing a database, or databases, allowing you to add subtract and build an infrastructure to suit your need and swap and change as required or desired. Also, it allows you to try different types of data storage easily and experiment with set-up configuration and resources. Web management interface management is clear, clean, and reactive.

Database as a service done right

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 02, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Databases
7 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are on IBM Cloud, then using IBM Cloud Databases is an obvious choice. It is natively available and offers a wide range of different database products that would cover most common use cases. If you are not on IBM Cloud but are interested to use the databases offered, such as MongoDB, it is still a viable option as sometimes it can be more cost effective compared to alternatives.

Cloud Storage

Rating: 3 out of 10
Incentivized
April 30, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Databases
3 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
it helps with off site storage and has very easy recall. it is a fast service that we trust very much. we like the way that it operates and provides access to all things that we need. it offers a lot of options to best suit our business needs which are abundant and diverse. but we enjoy using the system overall.

Solid choice for AaaS NoSQL hosting

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
April 21, 2021
JA
Jude Allred
Member of Technical Staff
Fog Creek Software (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Databases
1 year of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for super-low-maintenance NoSQL data storage. Tons of applications just need a 'boring' data layer, meaning that it needs to be easy, fast, and resilient, but we won't be doing anything special with it: Compose is perfect for that. If a highly custom solution was needed (your data storage is the hard part of your application (...but really? _really_? it probably isn't.)), then you might go custom.

And of course if you want a relational database, Compose isn't for you.

Feels strange to have ever self-hosted Redis and RabbitMQ

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 16, 2021
DH
Dominik Hurnaus
Team Lead Backend-Services and Web
Tractive (Consumer Electronics, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Databases
2 years of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
I would definitely recommend using IBM Compose for secondary storage systems or message queues, as the price-performance ratio is unbeatable. We compared quite a few providers and the price-performance ratio with IBM Compose was by far the best.
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