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IBM Compose is a great choice for any database hosting needs
Updated March 02, 2018

IBM Compose is a great choice for any database hosting needs

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Compose

IBM Compose hosts our production database and provides an interface for our IT team to implement new features to our product.
  • The automatic backup system is easy to set up and reliable
  • The support team is quick to respond and very helpful
  • A simple user interface provides a productive environment for day-to-day tasks
  • The user interface is a bit finicky when it comes to quick edits to a dataset
  • Arrays are not supported in the SQL terminal of our Postgres environment
  • We spent a lot less time setting up our database systems and could focus more on designing our product
  • Mongolab
Compose provides a lot more features for working with your database and its datasets
IBM Compose is perfect for hosting a database without much maintenance work or trouble.

IBM Cloud Databases Feature Ratings

Database-as-a-Service
9.2
Automatic software patching
9
Database scalability
10
Automated backups
10
Database security provisions
8
Monitoring and metrics
9
Automatic host deployment
9

IBM Compose Support

Questions always get answered quickly, I once had an issue with the query terminal which turned out to be a bug in their software. It got fixed very quickly.
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
No escalation required
Immediate help available
Support understands my problem
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
None
Yes - The bug was fixed relatively quickly!

Using IBM Compose

In total, IBM Compose has a great interface with only minor flaws, which don't distract from the overall great usability both on desktops and mobile devices.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • Great overview over tables and the size of our database
  • Adding add-ons to the PostgreSQL environment
  • Great SELECT query interface for quick searches
  • Updating multiple rows in a table without a SQL query (using the Compose interface)
Yes - The mobile interface works as expected, all the features available in the main version are available and easy to use in the mobile interface as well.