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Compose just works and has an easy UI
Updated March 02, 2018

Compose just works and has an easy UI

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Compose

We build a social media app and we have our main and develop MongoDB databases in Compose.
  • Easy UI
  • Easy on demand and automatic backups
  • Database monitoring
  • The URL of the accounts remains with the name we set first time we use the account. It would be better to be able to change this URL.
  • Compose just works for our application.
Compose has great scalability and had a good price when we decided to launch our product.
IBM Compose just works, and is easy to use. You can easily configure automatic and on demand backups. You can configure alerts for your database if you want.

IBM Cloud Databases Feature Ratings

Database-as-a-Service
7.5
Automatic software patching
Not Rated
Database scalability
Not Rated
Automated backups
8
Database security provisions
Not Rated
Monitoring and metrics
7
Automatic host deployment
Not Rated

Using IBM Compose

1 - We host on Compose our main DB
1 - Only to know how to made Mongo DB queries, that's all. No other special skills are needed
  • Query for a document in our DB
  • Create users for the DB
  • Create new deployments
  • Manage backups
  • We use Compose in a standard way no innovative or unexpected way were needed for us
  • Maybe we will use other type of DB deployments
This DB hosting just worked for us. We don't want to move.

Evaluating IBM Compose and Competitors

  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
Price and usability are most important, No matter previous experience because I think all similar product have also an easy UI so time to learn to use them are no important.
I would no change it. I would select the product depending on the price and usability again.

IBM Compose Support

I think I only used once the support and just worked
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
None

Using IBM Compose

I found all the things easy to use, I would only like to improve the query navigation system.
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
  • Database creation
  • Backup configuration
  • Billing management
  • When we go back to a collection after we do a query and then select a document, the query is not saved. I have to type the query again.