Highly reliable database service
Updated January 04, 2022

Highly reliable database service

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Databases

Pros

  • It can be easily scaled up
  • It offers good region support
  • Data is encrypted and secure

Cons

  • DB2 web console is not so stable
  • Not able to see long-term DB2 metrics data
  • We are able to store a huge amount of data without worrying about the storage
  • We are able to set up databases in different regions
IBM offers a good variety of database choices like DB2, MongoDB, Redis, etc. If you want some database to use quickly but don't want to spend time on setting things up from scratch and don't want to spend efforts on daily operations, IBM Cloud Databases would be a good choice.

In our experience, some database service offers more than one URL, so our application needs to handle the failover.

Using IBM Cloud Databases

20 - They are from different functions, such as backend developers, devops/SRE engineers, stakeholders, etc. Different people are granted different roles to ensure they have the proper permissions to access the data.
5 - Since this is a managed service, we don't put much effort into support. The environments are mainly managed and supported by SRE team, while a few senior developers also provide support if necessary.
  • Relational database to store business data
  • No SQL database to store JSON documents
  • Data analysis
  • We created different database instances to spread the workload for better performance
  • We may look into high availability and disaster recovery
Since our services are running in IBM Kubernetes, using IBM Cloud Databases seem to be the best option. It may provide better performance than other vendors as everything is running in the same cloud. The overall experience so far is good as well.

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