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Solid choice for AaaS NoSQL hosting
Updated April 21, 2021

Solid choice for AaaS NoSQL hosting

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

IBM Compose is providing us with an Architecture-As-A-Service solution for persistent, highly-available NoSQL based data storage. We primarily use it to host data for our microservices and Glitch integrations. The ease of use in getting started and the ongoing low overhead of maintaining the product have been perfect. We haven't had a moment of trouble since starting to use the service.
  • Persistent data storage for microservices
  • Fast and easy, but secure, NoSQL storage for integrations and bots
  • Quick setup time, great for rapid prototypes which may graduate to real products and should thus start on a firm foundation.
  • Saves us time.
  • It's a low-cost provider at the entry level, but remains fully-featured and secure.
  • Lets devs provision DBs on their own for microservices, allowing them to move faster, safely.
We were comparing them against other Architecture As A Service providers. SSL connections to the database were essential, which eliminated most of the playing field, and given that we sought out the lowest-cost provider with an acceptable web management UI. Compose won on these fronts.
Well suited for super-low-maintenance NoSQL data storage. Tons of applications just need a 'boring' data layer, meaning that it needs to be easy, fast, and resilient, but we won't be doing anything special with it: Compose is perfect for that. If a highly custom solution was needed (your data storage is the hard part of your application (...but really? _really_? it probably isn't.)), then you might go custom.

And of course if you want a relational database, Compose isn't for you.

IBM Cloud Databases Feature Ratings

Database-as-a-Service
8.3
Automatic software patching
8
Database scalability
8
Automated backups
8
Database security provisions
8
Monitoring and metrics
8
Automatic host deployment
10

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