IBM Cloud Databases Review
Updated April 08, 2020

IBM Cloud Databases Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review

Modules Used

  • ICD PostgreSQL
  • kubernetes

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Databases

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.
  • Backups
  • Availability
  • Simplicity
  • Interface
  • Configuration
  • Intermediate offerings
  • Reduced costs
  • Management simplification
  • Elasticity
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.
IBM Cloud Container Registry, IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), IBM Cloud Container Registry, AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, IBM Cloud Functions
IBM Cloud Databases are well suited for service simplification.

IBM Cloud Databases Feature Ratings

Automatic software patching
9
Database scalability
8
Automated backups
9
Database security provisions
9
Monitoring and metrics
9
Automatic host deployment
9

Product Experience

  • 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
Because it was a little bit difficult to select between the high availability options versus the cost of each
  • Backups
  • Imports
  • Connectivity
  • User interface