Great service, certainly when you lack db operational expertise.
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Compose
We use IBM Compose for the production environment of our Saas solution. We use MongoDB for our back-end infrastructure. So basically this is a key part of our entire organization since we have one product that relies heavily on a database that is hosted by IBM compose. The business problem that is being solved is just basically that we can offer a persistent state of our service.
Pros
- Automatic configuration of a replica set for MongoDB. I was set to go immediately with minding the configuration. So basically, without much prior knowledge, I was set up before I knew it with a production-ready mature database setup.
- The support was very helpful and efficient when I had questions regarding an issue.
- They provide important security features like 2FA authentication, which is almost mission critical for production databases with sensitive data.
- Automatic backups and log files! Love it it, easy to find, easy to access.
- Everything just works after setting up the database.
Cons
- I would appreciate if there was some integration to auto-archive log files or backups to a Google Cloud Bucket, Amazon S3 or such. I personally would love to see Google Cloud Bucket integration.
- I am not sure if this is technically feasible, but I'd like to be able to upgrade my MongoDB for example to a newer version. For example v3.4 or v3.6, while I am still running version 3.2. Technology is a quick field, so rolling out new versions and upgrading is an essential service.
- A database was mandatory to build our product (Saas) so in this way, so obviously this created a positive impact on reach our business objectives of building a product.
- Since we had a lack of real database management skills in the technical team, IBM composes helped us set up a production-grade database environment with all the important points like auto backup, easy recovery, and easy scaling. This saved us a huge amount of time and money for not having to recruit or hire consultants on helping to set up our database environment.
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