Great service, certainly when you lack db operational expertise.
February 22, 2018
Great service, certainly when you lack db operational expertise.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
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.
- 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.
- 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.