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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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- Automated backups (87)8.282%
- 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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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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April 08, 2020
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We use IBM Cloud Databases as the core for transactions for our applications, which, in turn, are sold as SaaS. Postgres as a service helps us to focus on our product, reducing maintenance and administration costs and availability.
- IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL
- IBM Db2 on Cloud
- IBM Cloud Hyper Protect DBaaS for PostgreSQL
Individually for different applications for high transactional systems related to core business logistics process as well as support for enterprise resource planning system and business intelligence engine.
- Backups
- Availability
- Simplicity
- Interface
- Configuration
- Intermediate offerings
88.33333333333334%
8.8
- Reduced costs
- Management simplification
- Elasticity
It helps during peak workloads reducing concerns about bottlenecks in the systems or processing slow downs due to lack of resources. This is particularly important due to unexpected demands.
In turn this features reduce the cost of ownership, and the need of several DBA experts available on 7x24 basis,
The fact that we don't have to stop processing to add more resources to the box is beautiful.
In turn this features reduce the cost of ownership, and the need of several DBA experts available on 7x24 basis,
The fact that we don't have to stop processing to add more resources to the box is beautiful.
It is great to have the ability to have different database flavors available because it opens the options for the type of systems we can select from. Currently the best part is to have DB2 as well as Postgres and MySQL available. It allow us also to explore non relational options without having to be experts on platform administration
We don't have to worry about the database, and still haven't used the feature in the sense that we haven't presented any catastrophic failure, however the fact that backups don't have to be performed during non peak hours is great because we don't have to worry anymore bout affecting our customers.
- IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Simplified our maintenance and administration process while maintaining our total cost of ownership down. Now we don't require to have 7x24 experts available just in case for all the products that we contemplate and the integration runs smoothly as well as software deployment that can be accomplished almost continuously without having to require long downtime maintenance windows.
The kubernete service is the front end for the transactions of our core systems and our cloud databases (Postgres and DB2) are the persistence storage.
It is very similar to the way on which we operated before except that we don't have to worry about high availability, backups and essentially most of the tuning required by the database.
It is very similar to the way on which we operated before except that we don't have to worry about high availability, backups and essentially most of the tuning required by the database.
Transactional repositories for logistics systems. Database backend for enterprise resource planning. Business intelligence repository.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
The availability of DB2 as a cloud database was key
- Lack of knowledge
- Documentation incomplete
- Selecting between the options vs cost
- Backups
- Imports
- Connectivity
- User interface
January 14, 2020
Hosted postgresql/redis/rabbitmq on compose
We need managed MongoDB service.
- IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB
- IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL
Having a managed db for a cloud system hosted with IBM cloud.
- Simplifies/eliminate the need to administer database services
- Scalability when you need it, very easy to increase service limit/size/etc.
- Easy out of the box backups
- Cost for smaller deployments. Running minimal instances of redis, mongo, postgresql costs more than ordering a simple VM and installing youself.
- Managed services sometimes lack plugins (eg custom postgresql, rabbitmq extensions for specialized tasks).
95%
9.5
- Allowed us to quickly setup PoC demo environment of a platform of ours
It prevents overspending (buying capacity that is not needed at the moment, but maybe in case of unexpected loads).
Since our systems use multiple dbs, it allowed us to consolidate management and administration with a single supplier.
Having the auto-backup, which does not affect performance, eliminates the need for a daily maintenance window.
Solr was not available on Compose and had to be hosted internally
- store relational business data
- store non relational analytics data
- Price
- Product Features
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
compatibility with the rest if the IBM cloud ecosystem
- eliminating some unsupported third party extensions
- connecting IBM cloud deployed system
- there aren’t really such functions
all parts of our organization use it
3
- previous experience with installation and configuration of postgres
- previous experience with installation and configuration of mongodb
- storing relational business data
- storing non relational analytics data
- there aren’t really unexpected ways
- to migrate other parts if our infrastructure, e.g rabbitMQ
Yes
internally hosted db servers
no, we are satisfied
No
we have our own specialists to handle this situations
No
we have not used support for this product
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.
25%
2.5
- Compose just works for our application.
Compose has great scalability and had a good price when we decided to launch our product.
1
We host on Compose our main DB
1
Only to know how to made Mongo DB queries, that's all. No other special skills are needed
- Query for a document in our DB
- Create users for the DB
- Create new deployments
- Manage backups
- We use Compose in a standard way no innovative or unexpected way were needed for us
- Maybe we will use other type of DB deployments
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
Price and usability are most important, No matter previous experience because I think all similar product have also an easy UI so time to learn to use them are no important.
I would no change it. I would select the product depending on the price and usability again.
No
- Database creation
- Backup configuration
- Billing management
- When we go back to a collection after we do a query and then select a document, the query is not saved. I have to type the query again.
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
91.66666666666666%
9.2
- We spent a lot less time setting up our database systems and could focus more on designing our product
- Mongolab
Compose provides a lot more features for working with your database and its datasets
Yes
The bug was fixed relatively quickly!
- Great overview over tables and the size of our database
- Adding add-ons to the PostgreSQL environment
- Great SELECT query interface for quick searches
- Updating multiple rows in a table without a SQL query (using the Compose interface)
Yes
The mobile interface works as expected, all the features available in the main version are available and easy to use in the mobile interface as well.
January 19, 2018
IBM Compose managed DBs - cost effective solution
Our company operates with the Industrial IoT, we deliver a turnkey solution for connected vehicles to our clients which are operating within the automotive ecosystem - like repair shops, insurance companies, fleet owners etc. We use different products from the IBM Compose range as listed:
- IBM Compose RabbitMQ as a backbone for message exchange of our micro-services.
- IBM Compose for Mongo DB - we use using hosted Mongo database for storing entities like users, tokens, sessions, etc. We use it because of the flexibility for future modification and ease of use.
- IBM Compose for Scylla - We store data coming from the vehicles. - Just recently - Redis - for caching in our API products.
- You can be up and running within minutes.
- Being a managed database, things like backups, recovering, etc. So we dont have to spend much resources on securing those.
- Proactive support
- Smaller staring tier for Scylla DB, that will allow smaller companies like ours to on-board easily.
70%
7.0
- Positive - we went from idea to market within a 6 month period, partly because we leveraged managed storage solutions like IBM compose
Being part of IBM Global Entrepreneur program, it was the obvious choice.
3
Software developer, software development interns, CTO
Since compose is managed storage solution and the support offered is great, software developers are sufficiently proficient to explain the issues and get them resolved using the help of the IBM compose support
- IoT data storage - Scylla
- Administration database - Mongo
- Cache - Redis
- Developed our own caching solution
- We would use Redis database as a way for storing real time device data and displaying it to the users.
Yes
We previously utilized mLAB mongo database solution for storing entity data and also datapoints from our fleet of devices, that was replaced by the IBM Compose for Mongo and we switched to scylla for our device data.
- Price
- Product Reputation
- Vendor Reputation
- Analyst Reports
- Third-party Reviews
We got access to IBM compose as part of IBM GE program, that allowed us to utilize IBM Compose DaaS for free, that played a significant role in decision process to switch.
For a small starting company like ours its extremely important to have a reliably working solution, that also makes economical sense. In that regard, I would not change in our decision process. Reputation and price are on top.
No
The current support is good enough and reponsive.
No
The time that our RabbitMQ cluster needed to go up in memory:
As engineers we sometimes cut corners to fast troubleshoot a problems. That happened to my team as one of my developers made an extra queue in RabbitMQ and then forgot about it, the queue grew quickly and one of the nodes was running out of memory, hence crashing, the Compose team came in and automatically scaled the MQ for us while notifying us for the problem. At the end they saved the day.
- Deploying DaaS
- Backups
- The fact that the administration dashboards for Rabbit MQ for example uses port different than 80, that could be blocked in some organizations.
No