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Database as a service done right
May 02, 2021

Database as a service done right

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Databases

  • Cost effective
  • Everything under one roof, having all our data needs taken care of from a single vendor makes management much easier
  • Integrates with IBM Cloud platform natively
  • Does not support Let's Encrypt for secured connection. Currently IBM Cloud Databases only support self-signed certificate, which is more troublesome to configure.
  • Due to compliance requirements, IBM Cloud Databases have a tendency to deprecate and EOL various older versions of the databases offered, sometimes you have very short window to upgrade.
  • Cost effective compared to other alternatives in the market
  • Easy to implement, helps to keep maintenance and management cost low
We started with IBM Compose, which later got merged into and became IBM Cloud Databases.
If you are on IBM Cloud, then using IBM Cloud Databases is an obvious choice. It is natively available and offers a wide range of different database products that would cover most common use cases. If you are not on IBM Cloud but are interested to use the databases offered, such as MongoDB, it is still a viable option as sometimes it can be more cost effective compared to alternatives.

IBM Cloud Databases Feature Ratings

Database-as-a-Service
9.7
Automatic software patching
10
Database scalability
10
Automated backups
10
Database security provisions
10
Monitoring and metrics
9
Automatic host deployment
9