Item: IBM Cloud Databases
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using it for storing data for some auxiliary services we're running on various clouds. It was easy to hook up with a few apps on Heroku, for example, where Heroku's own free tier wasn't sufficient and their paid tiers not competitive.

Pros and Cons

Easy to set up
Easy to access from apps on various PaaS-s.
Affordable

Lower pricing

Return on Investment

Saved us a lot time of setting up a dedicated database auxiliary services we're running.
Easy to set up and hook into other PaaS-s.

Alternatives Considered

Heroku and Amazon Relational Database Service

It was very easy to set up at the time with a few clicks to get a database set up and hooked into Heroku, one of the PaaS-s we're using.

Other Software Used

PostgreSQL, Redis

Likelihood to Recommend

Suitable for small to medium size deployments where time to market is more important than the price of hosting or data locality/security requirements.

Quick Database to go with Your App on Heroku

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Databases