Compose allows you to focus on your product, while they focus on your database.
February 21, 2018

Compose allows you to focus on your product, while they focus on your database.

Gennady Borukhovich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Compose

Compose is our product's primary database for our production system. Occasionally, we use it for reporting. When we do that, we typically grab a recent backup to use for reporting purposes in a non-production environment.
  • Great maintenance of the database
  • Failover
  • Backups
  • Price. $18/GB is quite a lot of money for storage these days. I realize that we get additional service including backups, etc., but that level of service for similar services, such as Heroku have a much lower baseline cost. Storage these days is quite cheap and I would like to see a different pricing plan such as $50-$75/month for SSD & failsafe and $5/GB for additional storage. Something like that.
  • Support for legacy architectures. We're on the legacy architecture, and a few times now, we've been told that some issues are a low priority.I understand the need to move technology forward and to focus your teams, but the price hasn't gone down for me. I am very resource constrained and am unable to do the upgrade, but my business depends on the support that I am paying for.
  • Compose has allowed me to focus on building my product while someone else manages my database infrastructure. That ability to focus has an immeasurable effect on my ROI.
  • MongoLab
It has been a very long time, but at the time, Compose's customer support was incredible compared to MongoLab.
Very broad range. I've used Compose when just starting out when it was just a MongoDB database. Now with Compose's broad offering of different database systems, it becomes a one-stop shop and grows with the products that we are building.

IBM Cloud Databases Feature Ratings

Automatic software patching
9
Database scalability
10
Automated backups
9
Database security provisions
7
Monitoring and metrics
3
Automatic host deployment
Not Rated