IBM Compose
February 23, 2018

IBM Compose

Daniel Bruce | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Compose

We use IBM compose to host RabbitMQ, Redis and MongoDB databases inside our engineering department to support Node.JS web services that provide data to our Mobile product, Albert.

The Redis Database is used for distributed session management, MongoDB stores all of our persistent data and RabbitMQ is used as a queue to provide data storage stability to operations that may fail and need retrying.
  • Simple interface for performing basic queries on data
  • Easy to get set up
  • Great customer support
  • The Web Ui is only good for basic operations.
  • Easier back up and restore for MongoDB
  • Speed up the Web Ui
  • Faster development time as we don't have to worry about the database.
It feels very similar but Compose was there first. I haven't used MongoDB Atlas in anger yet but it does seem to be more comprehensive.
Compose is perfect for our scenario, we needed a hosted database solution that we could forget about and it does this extremely well.

IBM Cloud Databases Feature Ratings

Automatic software patching
10
Database scalability
10
Automated backups
8
Database security provisions
10
Monitoring and metrics
2
Automatic host deployment
10