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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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- 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 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.
January 14, 2020
Hosted postgresql/redis/rabbitmq on compose
We need managed MongoDB service.
- 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).
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.
We primarily use PostgreSQL, Elastic, Redis, and Mongodb for our applications.
- Easy to provision
- Auth with certs
- Replication
- More features than just the open source versions
- HIPAA compliance
November 14, 2019
Review of IBM Cloud Databases
We are currently using it as part of product development.
- Easy to provision
- Credentials easy to access
- Easy to scale
- Credential management difficult
- No 'admin' access to database system services. Not sure how to get/change admin features of databases
- Reporting is unclear. It is hard to determine when/where I was running out of resources and getting database connection refused reasons
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 25, 2019
Compose for your database needs
We are using Compose.io to host our MongoDB database backing our web application. The software team that I lead is using Compose.io and administrates the database. We really don't need to do much since everything is handled for us.
- Running our database 24/7
- Update the software version
- Backup and restore
- Support answer quickly and to the point
- Migrations when adding new features
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 14, 2018
Compose PostgreSQL for Small SAAS
[It's being used as a] Primary database for a small SAAS company.
- Communication
- Availability
- Tutorials
- PostgreSQL backups and restores could be easier. It would be nice to be able to upload/download a database dump file.
- I don't like the PostgreSQL web-based query tool provided. It has been known to change my queries before executing them.
- I would like to be notified (email) when my database deployment auto-scales. As it is now, I have only found out when my bill is higher.
March 14, 2018
User-friendly
IBM Compose is used to connect Redis and MySQL databases to our analysis software. The software we designed manages wifi-enabled energy consumption devices.
- Provides an easy and consistent way of using connection strings.
- User-friendly.
- Quick to create new databases.
- It is a useful service, no cons which I can recall.
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 13, 2018
Doing MongoDB the easy way with Compose
We use Compose for both Mongo databases and Redis databases. For each type of database, we run development, test, and production instances. Basically, it lets me have a very robust database without having a DBA or Dev Ops team.
- Easy to create a database within a few minutes. Particularly nice if you just need one for a few hours.
- Very easy to copy data from one instance to another.
- Backups are automatic; do not impact system performance when they happen and are very quick and easy to restore.
- I find some of the documentation to be a little vague and not clearly versioned or time-stamped. As an example, you needed a particular version of the Node Mongo driver to use the connection string with multiple load balancer addresses. The documentation said that "older versions may not work" or words to that effect but was not specific about which one did work.
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 12, 2018
Thanks to Compose, I stay focused on my value.
Compose is used to host our main database for our software, called TeamMood, which is a Saas for managers wanting to have a better understanding of what's going on in their teams. Compose stores and serves our customers all over the world.
- Easy setup
- Great SLA
- Easy to scale
- Sometimes the dashboard is not responsive if data are not stored within the US.
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 Saves You A Lot Of Time With Your Databases
We use Compose as our database layer for PostgreSQL. It relieves us of the need to maintain our own database servers and personnel.
- Convenience - fully automated management and backups, no need for us to maintain in-house resources on it.
- Scalability - Easy for us to scale
- More detailed scaling options will be good.
- More detailed logging/server stats will help us diagnose problems.
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 07, 2018
Very good database service for small project
Compose is used as our main database for our product Collect. All services are dependent on this database.
- Very easy to use
- Lots of features out of the box (backups, indexes, oplog)
- Monitoring and logs could be improved
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 05, 2018
Decent DBaas Platform
We are using the Mongo DB cloud deployments and Redis for all our application development architecture. We started using Compose well before it was acquired by IBM. Applications developed include anything we do to support the business and customers.
- Compose is reliable. Zero problems with DB stability or being down due to some outage.
- The console is a great tool for exploring your database - from its contents to admin information such as connections and cpu load.
- All the admin tools you need to get stuff done work really well.
- Super easy to clone a new DB for development or support to test an issue w/on it interfering with production.
- UX could be improved. Takes quite a few links to navigate through deployments to individual databases.
- A free form query window would be really nice. At least for mongo it’s limited to the collection your viewing Would be nice to be able to change as necessary.
- Integration with third-party DevOps tools like Datadog and SignalFX would be really nice.