My journey with IBM Cloud Database
October 31, 2019
My journey with IBM Cloud Database
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- ICD redis
- ICD PostgreSQL
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Databases
We are using IBM Cloud Databases across different departments. Currently, it's mainly used for POCs and to implement Cloud-Native architecture. We are using Cloudant and PostgreSQL. IBM Cloud Databases provide us easy to use redundancy and point in time recovery.
- Strong backup strategy
- Different database options including SQL and NoSQL
- Fast database provisioning
- Reduced the need for DBA
- Would like more database options added, e.g Cassandra DB
- Limited data centre options
- No data browser available for PostgreSQL
- Provided low-cost options available to build PoC and development environments.
- However, production cost still not evaluated.
- Dedicated cores can optionally be provisioned, but the minimum is 3 cores per member. This results in higher costs.
We have Cassandra database that is currently not available as part of IBM Cloud Databases. We ended up using classic infrastructure IaaS to host our Cassandra server.