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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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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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March 05, 2018
IBM Compose is great!
We use the product to time code the transcripts for our videos. This is extremely helpful since it is an automatic system now. It's decreased the manual effort we've had to put in, as well as decreased the wait time for video and transcript analysis. Our clients love how quick the process is!
- Speed of delivery
- Accuracy
- None I can think of
We are using IBM Compose to host several of our databases that are an integral part of our service. We are using both different databases and messaging services that Compose has to offer. By using IBM Compose, we're able to concentrate more on solving the business problems for our customers and leaving most of the database maintenance and hosting work to a company that has totally dedicated to just those things and doing them awesomely.
- IBM Compose has managed to create a service with all the related automation and monitoring around it that makes it possible to have reliable and highly available databases running in the cloud.
- Compose support is great and very professional, but still keeping a personal touch to it.
- IBM Compose isn't just a one trick pony, there's support to a wealth of different popular databases and messaging services, so you can have most if not all of your DB needs covered by a single provider.
- As IBM Compose is adding more and more databases that it supports, they might not have been able to move as quickly as before on supporting the latest versions of certain databases, like for example MongoDB.
- More options for storing DB backups would be great. For example possibility to get Compose to send them to customer's S3 bucket. And option to select what tables/collections to have in the backup would be nice for those cases where certain data is more or less ephemeral and not essential when restoring from a backup.
- Shrinking down a MongoDB instance's storage after deleting a lot of data is a pain! This is mostly due to how MongoDB is built, but Compose could figure out a simple to use interface for doing this by push of a button.
Compose is our database vendor for all our backend systems. Their hosted Mongo solution has powered our products from the early days as a 3 person startup to now being acquired twice and part of an 800+ person organization. Through this scaling we have not had any fulltime DBAs, so we relied on the managed offering to have high uptime and provide consistent service with minimal tinkering.
- High uptime
- Consistent performance
- Same-as-you-bought-it versioning
- Performance recommendation - with us not having a DBA or mongo expert in house, we had to do a lot of learning on our own. After seeing tools like mlab, Mongo's own cloud offering, Scalegrid, etc, the monitoring and performance tools offered by Compose are dead last in the pack.
- More graceful scaling - we operate a fairly large instance of Mongo, and pay handsomely for it each month. But every now and again the Compose team had to intervene due to disk space issues which we expected would have been taken care of by them in advance. Whenever they intervened our performance was diminished from 6-48 hours.
- Better communication - the reps are generally knowledgeable and respond within 12 hours, but when your entire stack relies on Compose as a point of failure it would be appreciated if there was a method to contact when there are urgent issues or outages.
- Proactive assistance - we always had to initialize requests despite the stats all being available to Compose. No recommendations ever were proactively offered despite our large monthly bill and longterm status as a customer.
March 02, 2018
Compose- Highly Recommended
We rely on elastic search for licensed technology we host for clients. It's the one piece of the infrastructure our internal team doesn't have extensive experience with.
Even though it's the place where we have the least experience, it's also the place where we run into the least challenges. I can count on one hand how often it has had an outage, and we've literally never had server / configuration issues.
Even though it's the place where we have the least experience, it's also the place where we run into the least challenges. I can count on one hand how often it has had an outage, and we've literally never had server / configuration issues.
- Easy-to-use
- Elasticsearch hosting
- I don't have any further recommendations at this time- Compose just works for us!
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.
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
March 01, 2018
Helpful tool for flexible management of cloud-based apps
We utilize IBM Compose as a component for running our Watson-based service chatbot in the IBM Cloud.
- Flexible managing of storage usage
- Runs well with cloud-based apps such as IBM Watson
- Easy to deploy as part of the IBM cloud foundry apps
- Tutorials would be desirable (or maybe I failed to find these)
February 28, 2018
Stable, fast and has a good price.
IBM Compose manages our MongoDB database, which is the main database technology we use. I've looked for a company to take care of the database part of the application, and IBM Compose seemed to fit.
- Very stable, 100% availability of the MongoDb instances.
- Good & fast support with helpful answers.
- Very good value for our money which is great for startups like ours
- I'd like to see some more online tools for automation of tasks.
- like database shrinking for instance.
February 26, 2018
IBM Compose, easy and fast.
We are using MongoDB Compose for our Home Care patient management application. For remote monitoring and electronic medical records.
- In management, the IBM Compose Management panel provides us with the necessary data.
- When it is necessary to scale the service, we can carry it out quickly and easily.
- We have incredible support from IBM and the documentation provided
- We would like to be able to move Compose to a local environment as a way of testing out of the IBM environment.
February 23, 2018
You Can Trust Compose to Handle your Data!
We use IBM Compose MongoDB servers for one of our web-based software products. It allows us to focus on improving the product and not worry about whether our data is secure and accessible by our clients. This software is used in an on-premise/dedicated instance fashion, so the MongoDB servers are used by multiple instances of the software. We can continue to expand while using IBM Compose to host our data.
- Regular backups of our data
- Multiple access points for higher availability
- Wonderful web-based GUI for accessing and modifying data
- Powerful server instances with enough dedicated RAM to handle any load thrown at it
- Specific control over the amount of RAM and storage being used
- High priced versus some competitors
- CouchDB support
February 23, 2018
No Worries with Compose
We are using IBM Compose for :
- PostGres: We retain and compute Location Data and queries.
Scaling, backups clustering, and pricing were a problem from other competitors; this is where IBM killed the competition and helped us secure our data
- MongoDB: We retain system logs.
- MySQL: We retain user Data.
- MySQL: We retain user Data.
Scaling, backups clustering, and pricing were a problem from other competitors; this is where IBM killed the competition and helped us secure our data
It is being used across the whole technical solution and as a web service.
- Pricing
- Clustering
- Scaling -> Load Balancers
- Reduce need for human maintenance
- Pricing has been increasing lately. IBM Compose is in much in need for a control panel and documentation
February 23, 2018
IBM Compose is great for database deployment
We use IBM Compose for a MongoDB deployment with a Meteor JS Application (usilio.com)
- Easy deployment
- User friendly web interface
- Performance and reliability
- More database support! (we are currently testing the MySQL BETA)
February 23, 2018
Compose Review
We originally used Compose to manage our MongoDB deployment. We are a small organization and needed a cost-effective Mongo cluster. When we first started with Compose, we didn't have the engineering bandwidth to manage high availability, backups, etc. ourselves. Using Compose was a good way to get started. Setup was easy and things like versioning and backups were taken care of so we could focus on our application layer - our core competency.
- Ease of setup
- Intuitive interface for deployment management
- Clear pricing tiers and easy billing
- System monitoring - You should use mLab as precedent
- Performance - we experienced connection issues as our read/write ops scaled and had to move to another platform
February 23, 2018
Very easy to get started
We provide Software as a Service (http://innovationwall.io) and need to store information in a database. We also decided (for reasons other than) Compose to host our service on IBM Bluemix. Thanks to Bluemix we got introduced to Compose and decided to use their Redis-solution for storing sessions of our users
- Easy to integrate with services running on bluemix.
- Have not yet experienced downtime
- Little to no maintenance
- It's not clear to me how much more the service will cost us if we scale up to more users.
- We might run our service on AWS in the future. It's not clear to me if and how -from a technical point of view- we can keep on using compose since it's packaged with our account we use to host our application. I'm also not sure if it will have a big impact on the performance.
February 23, 2018
IBM Compose
We use IBM compose to host RabbitMQ, Redis and MongoDB databases inside our engineering department to support Node.JS web services that provide data to our Mobile product, Albert.
The Redis Database is used for distributed session management, MongoDB stores all of our persistent data and RabbitMQ is used as a queue to provide data storage stability to operations that may fail and need retrying.
The Redis Database is used for distributed session management, MongoDB stores all of our persistent data and RabbitMQ is used as a queue to provide data storage stability to operations that may fail and need retrying.
- Simple interface for performing basic queries on data
- Easy to get set up
- Great customer support
- The Web Ui is only good for basic operations.
- Easier back up and restore for MongoDB
- Speed up the Web Ui
February 23, 2018
This remains my preferred database-as-a-service
We use IBM Compose as a critical component of our IT infrastructure for hosting a cluster of MongoDB instances. This enables us to store off-site user and application data with excellent performance and high availability. The range of options provided by IBM Compose allow us greater choice of technology versus competitors and the ability to instantly scale our offerings.
- High availability database-as-a-service
- Vast range of supported technologies
- Ability to instantly scale resources
- Menu options in the platform could be consolidated better
February 22, 2018
Small dev teams will LOVE Compose!
We started using Compose because we were looking for a RethinkDB provider. Although we eventually stopped using RethinkDB and migrated the app to MongoDB, our experience with Compose was great and we stuck with Compose. The databases power internal back-office apps that are used by the whole company. We have a small development team and using Compose let us quickly and easily setup new deployments and access/manage existing deployments using their GUI, saving us time and letting the engineering focus on writing code - not managing servers.
- Creating production-ready deployments is easy
- The database consoles are intuitive and easy to use for new users
- Creating and restoring backups is easy
- Migrating data between deployments is done through the GUI
- Hosted version lacks integration with corporate Single Sign On (SSO)
- Doesn't offer Kafka deployments
February 22, 2018
IBM Compose Review
We use IBM compose for development and a production server. The main reason is it is easy to scale. But we also have a problem from time to time which is related to the database network latency issue in some of the regions.
- Scaling
- Easy to manage
- Security is easy
- Network latency
February 22, 2018
Great service, certainly when you lack db operational expertise.
We use IBM Compose for the production environment of our Saas solution. We use MongoDB for our back-end infrastructure. So basically this is a key part of our entire organization since we have one product that relies heavily on a database that is hosted by IBM compose. The business problem that is being solved is just basically that we can offer a persistent state of our service.
- Automatic configuration of a replica set for MongoDB. I was set to go immediately with minding the configuration. So basically, without much prior knowledge, I was set up before I knew it with a production-ready mature database setup.
- The support was very helpful and efficient when I had questions regarding an issue.
- They provide important security features like 2FA authentication, which is almost mission critical for production databases with sensitive data.
- Automatic backups and log files! Love it it, easy to find, easy to access.
- Everything just works after setting up the database.
- I would appreciate if there was some integration to auto-archive log files or backups to a Google Cloud Bucket, Amazon S3 or such. I personally would love to see Google Cloud Bucket integration.
- I am not sure if this is technically feasible, but I'd like to be able to upgrade my MongoDB for example to a newer version. For example v3.4 or v3.6, while I am still running version 3.2. Technology is a quick field, so rolling out new versions and upgrading is an essential service.
February 21, 2018
To Compose or Not Compose
We use the redis and elasticsearch services. We utilize these by our application services platform. We do not have IT personnel (and don't plan to) thus we prefer hosted/"as a service" platforms/products. We may focus our energies and spend on our product development not IT operations.
- Excellent Dashboard - easy to use and manage our services
- Excellent Diagnostics - providing up to the second visibility into the status services
- High Availability and redundancy is excellent.
- Honestly - the only con could be cost vs. some other hosted solutions. But comparing apples to apples it's typically just a little higher premium above others.
February 21, 2018
MongoDB hosted at Compose - great for beginners but needs a clearer transition to more advanced users
It hosts the primary database for our API - MongoDB. I have to manage IT for the whole project, so I'm the only one who knows about/uses it. It's useful as a low maintenance database solution with good performance and decent tooling. Since I'm the only IT profile in the company, I have to be very efficient with my time, and Compose let's me offload DB admin to more qualified people.
- Low/zero maintenance DB hosting. For smaller businesses, IT salaries represent a big investment - tools like Compose allow me to concentrate on product development, where I bring the most value.
- Security and confidence - in my 2 years with Compose I've never had any problems to speak of. The few times I needed help the Compose team was quite reactive.
- Experience - they've been hosting Mongo and Redis for a long time. I did quite a lot of research in 2015 when I started with them - they seemed to be the most stable and experienced offering out there.
- Updates - at the moment I'm seriously considering going to Atlas. Mongo 3.6 is a huge update and at the moment Compose is stuck on 3.4, while Atlas is up to 3.6.
- Analytics - the analytics/performance tools for Compose are not very user-friendly. For a hosted, let's say novice-friendly offering like Compose, I think there should be far more context about how to interpret the information given and easier ways to alert in case of problems.
February 21, 2018
Best Database Engine
Compose is great. Before it used to take a lot of time for me to manually set MongoDB on my servers. With Compose, I don't spend time setting anything because Compose is ready to be used. MongoDB on Compose is very stable and I am 100% satisfied with it. Moreover, I have never experienced any database issues since I have migrated to Compose.
- No need to install MongoDB. It is already installed.
- No need to waste our configuring MongoDB because Compose has already done most of the work.
- The user interface of MongoDB on Compose is very intuitive and easy to use.
- It could be cheaper
February 21, 2018
Second to no one - we mean no one.
We use IBM Compose for several web applications that are used to compile terabytes of data across multiple databases. Our entire development group has access and work in conjunction with each other. No other product was able to be used for our particular use and the support team at Compose is amazing.
- Easy to Scale
- Support is able help solve our challenges
- Cost is in line with what we need
- Support wait time can take a bit too long
- Have an assigned Account rep
- The GUI has been a challenge but has been fixed
February 21, 2018
Great GUI editor for database entries!
Across organization. [It's being] Used as managed database provider, but the important differentiator is the GUI to edit MongoDB entries, which has allowed us to forestall having to build comprehensive admin dashboards.
- GUI Editor
- Easily copy databases between prod and test environments
- Automated backups/reliability
- Reliability - GUI editor often redirects to homepage when making queries or saving changes. Some kind of authentication error, or a bad instance deployed in the loadbalancer? I'm logged in, and trying again often fixes it.
- Expensive
February 21, 2018
DBaaS with Compose, the right choice
We use MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and RabbitMQ with Compose and that allows us to focus on what we do best—building great apps. It provides us developer agility, DBA productivity, application reliability, performance, and security.
- When a developer wishes to provision a database, the steps involved include provisioning compute, storage and networking components, configuring them properly and then installing database software...with Compose you can provision while in a DB environment in 3 steps.
- Compose ensures that all databases are operated in the same way, and in keeping with the best practices established by the IT organization. This, frees up the developer and DBA to work on more important things like the application and innovation rather than the boring minutiae of running a database.
- Once in operation, complex database operations like resizing a cluster are now a simple API call to Compose and the developer need not concern themselves with the minutiae of how this operation should be performed for the specific database and version.
- Support more databases
- Support DRP plans
- Support Geo replication between datacenters