IBM cloud databases easy to integrate and experiment with
Updated July 26, 2021

IBM cloud databases easy to integrate and experiment with

Ben Holmes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • ICD PostgreSQL

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Databases

Pros

  • Easily integrated
  • Easy to purchase and deploy
  • Price simplicity

Cons

  • Monitoring software for Db needs setup time
  • Cost grows quickly
  • Connectivity to our on-premise applications is a struggle
  • Prove use cases prior to administering entire platform, obtain ROI faster
  • Able to achieve the technological components of our advanced analytics team without full scale purchase of AI platform
  • Developed several studies to prove out cloud Db value, speed to deploy
We already had existing contracts with IBM and Microsoft, so those made the most sense to verify. Both are good options for data storage. Since much of our existing Dbs are IBM related, we stuck with IBM cloud dbs, just so that the SQL code would port well. Additionally, we needed co-location of our data with the analytics platform we developed, and so that made IBM a better option.

Do you think IBM Cloud Databases delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Cloud Databases's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Cloud Databases live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Cloud Databases go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Cloud Databases again?

Yes

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.

IBM Cloud Databases Feature Ratings

Database-as-a-Service
8.7
Automatic software patching
10
Database scalability
9
Automated backups
9
Database security provisions
9
Monitoring and metrics
5
Automatic host deployment
10

Comments

  • Joe Cornejo | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Joe Cornejo
    (Vendor Representative) commented 4 years ago
    Hello Ben, Thank you for the feedback and insight! We sincerely appreciate the commentary on this offering and are glad to hear of your experience thus far with the product set. Please do let us know if there is anything else that we can do for you regarding your IBM Cloud account, and thanks again for the feedback!

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