Decent DBaas Platform
March 05, 2018
Decent DBaas Platform
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Databases
We are using the Mongo DB cloud deployments and Redis for all our application development architecture. We started using Compose well before it was acquired by IBM. Applications developed include anything we do to support the business and customers.
- Compose is reliable. Zero problems with DB stability or being down due to some outage.
- The console is a great tool for exploring your database - from its contents to admin information such as connections and cpu load.
- All the admin tools you need to get stuff done work really well.
- Super easy to clone a new DB for development or support to test an issue w/on it interfering with production.
- UX could be improved. Takes quite a few links to navigate through deployments to individual databases.
- A free form query window would be really nice. At least for mongo it’s limited to the collection your viewing Would be nice to be able to change as necessary.
- Integration with third-party DevOps tools like Datadog and SignalFX would be really nice.
- It’s been positive since we saved the salary of a dba. As a small group that was critical.
- Saves cap-ex in that we don’t need to buy and manage the hardware.
- Level of scalability available is rather high. To have this type of capacity in a private data center when you need it is unlikely for most.
- AWS and MongoLab
Compose was cheaper (at the time) and seemed to evolve more quickly. Hosting our own on AWS seemed too time-consuming. We wanted Aerospike hosted by Compose but it never materialized.