CockroachDB vs. IBM Cloud Databases

CockroachDB

CockroachDB

3 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Cloud Databases

IBM Cloud Databases

233 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CockroachDB	Score 6.7 out of 10	N/A	CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database from Cockroach Labs in New York. It is designed to give users resilient, horizontal scale across multiple clouds with always-on availability and data partitioned by location. CockroachDB scales horizontally without reconfiguration or need for a massive architectural overhaul. CockroachDB Core is open-source, while the Enterprise edition is not but includes additional features (e.g. distributed backup and restore, geo-partitioning, etc.). Finally,…	N/A
IBM Cloud Databases	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	IBM Cloud Databases are open source data stores for enterprise application development. Built on a Kubernetes foundation, they offer a database platform for serverless applications. They are designed to scale storage and compute resources seamlessly without being constrained by the limits of a single server. Natively integrated and available in the IBM Cloud console, these databases are now available through a consistent consumption, pricing, and interaction model. They aim to provide a cohesive…	N/A

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CockroachDB	IBM Cloud Databases
Free Trial
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Community Pulse
	CockroachDB	IBM Cloud Databases
Considered Both Products	CockroachDB No answer on this topic	IBM Cloud Databases Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Databases N/A for other services, but used IBM because of reputation as it is an industry giant who has been a big player in the IT industry for years. Incentivized Helpful? Sunil Varma GRADUATE ENGINEER TRAINEE Chose IBM Cloud Databases a powerful storm disrupted power supplies and network connections to the data center hosting our critical databases. Despite the external factors causing widespread service disruptions, IBM Cloud Databases demonstrated its exceptional reliability. The auto-failover feature … Incentivized Helpful? Sai karthik Satyavarapu Senior Technical Specialist Chose IBM Cloud Databases UI is easier to use and flexible. AWS EBS is very simple to use and do upgrades and monitor the upgrades easily. I also recommend IBM to implement these. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Databases The reason why I choose IBM Cloud Databases is that the IBM cloud toolset is already being used in other functions of the company and by using IBM Cloud Databases, the other cloud tools are better embedded and integrated. If the company is set to use amazon tools, I would go … Incentivized Helpful? KR Kunnath Rahul Software Engineer Chose IBM Cloud Databases IBM cloud database has a lot of features than amazon dynamodb. This is my personal opinion. But I can't say amazon dynamodb is a bad one. But IBM cloud database has a lot of securities and file storage and backup features than amazon dynamodb. But both are good in their own … Incentivized Helpful? DJ Daniel Johnson IT Expert Chose IBM Cloud Databases I have used Amazon DynamoDm and compared to IBM Compose, I would say IBM Compose is affordable, easy to use and very fast as well. I would opt IBM Cloud Databases given the two choices Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Databases No I haven't yet used other ones more so can't make a judgement Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Databases We started with IBM Compose, which later got merged into and became IBM Cloud Databases. Incentivized Helpful? Pretty Varughese IT Executive Chose IBM Cloud Databases We've chose IBM Cloud Databases due to uptime, high performance, and redundancy. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Databases they do a great job at handling our business needs. we like what they offer and how they respond to questions we provide. they do a lot of great things that help our business thrive and stay ahead. we are grateful for how this compnay has responded to our unique requests and … Incentivized Helpful? Ben Holmes Business Intelligence Supervisor Chose IBM Cloud Databases We already had existing contracts with IBM and Microsoft, so those made the most sense to verify. Both are good options for data storage. Since much of our existing Dbs are IBM related, we stuck with IBM cloud dbs, just so that the SQL code would port well. Additionally, we … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Databases The kubernete service is the front end for the transactions of our core systems and our cloud databases (Postgres and DB2) are the persistence storage. It is very similar to the way on which we operated before except that we don't have to worry about high availability, backups … Incentivized Helpful? Mohib Hassan Director Chose IBM Cloud Databases AWS RDS & Oracle OCI. AWS RDS has a wider range of databases but at a higher cost. IBM Compose has fewer databases but is perfect for data related solutions like data warehousing (IBM Db2 AI enabled Warehouse is a GREAT product!) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Databases Cloudant is HIPAA compliant and replicated out of the box. We recommend use of Cloudant vs Mongodb for that purpose. We use Redis only as a session cache. Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Donovan Associate Partner Chose IBM Cloud Databases We are still evaluating the differences between IBM Cloud Databases and AWS Postgres instances. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Databases N/A Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Databases We have Cassandra database that is currently not available as part of IBM Cloud Databases. We ended up using classic infrastructure IaaS to host our Cassandra server. Incentivized Helpful? Jon Tara Chief Code-Wrangler Chose IBM Cloud Databases I did compare IBM Compose for PostgreSQL with PostgreSQL offerings available from Amazon and Google. IBM Compose was judged easier to provision and maintain. I'm pleased with the additional more granular provisioning flexibility and more favorable cost structure that has come … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Databases Solr was not available on Compose and had to be hosted internally Incentivized Helpful? Sagiv Frankel Freelance Web Developer Chose IBM Cloud Databases UI/UX was much better with ibm compose. Incentivized Helpful? Richard King Owner Chose IBM Cloud Databases I have only used self-hosted servers in the past. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Databases While at the time, Amazon RDS did/does not create Mongo databases, I was able to set up many with PostgreSQL databases with the same ease as IBM Compose. However, IBM compose does seem to offer a more intuitive application control panel. Amazon RDS costs run on a server … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Databases We selected Compose because we initially thought that they would provide great support, and that they would bring encryption at rest within months. That has not materialized yet. We also thought that the cost, while far from being the lowest, was reasonable. Incentivized Helpful? Juan Miret Director fundador Chose IBM Cloud Databases I've tried Amazon DynamoDB and Heroku Postgres, but Compose was much much easier and faster to set up, and also has more DB alternatives. Incentivized Helpful? Alfred Reinold Baudisch Co-Founder and CEO Chose IBM Cloud Databases Aiven backup options are very limited (you can't download backups and you don't have an API) and their dashboard is incomplete and without an optimal design; but they accept way more data centers, and they have more pricing options. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

CockroachDB

IBM Cloud Databases

Database-as-a-Service

Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	CockroachDB - Ratings	IBM Cloud Databases 7.0 Ratings 21% below category average
Automatic software patching	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Database scalability	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Automated backups	00 Ratings	6.80 Ratings
Database security provisions	00 Ratings	8.70 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	00 Ratings	4.20 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	00 Ratings	5.20 Ratings

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User Ratings
	CockroachDB	IBM Cloud Databases
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	1.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	CockroachDB	IBM Cloud Databases
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	Less Appropriate Scenario: 1) Small Scale or Low Budget Projects 2) Organizations with limited expertise in cloud technologies may find the learning curve steep, especially if they are not familiar with the IBM Cloud platform 3) If database requirements are highly dynamic and change frequently, the comprehensive features and management provided by IBM Cloud Databases might be overkill. A more flexible, self-managed solution could be preferable for adapting to rapid changes. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	The ease of setup was effortless. For anyone with development experience, a few simple questions such as name and login data will get you set up. The web application to manage cluster settings, billing settings and even introspect the data was simple and most importantly worked all the time. This can not always be said for web interfaces of other products. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	Better cost reports, before just increasing to another tier, thus increasing the price. This is critical for early stage startups, where budget is tight. Add more data center options. As a comparison, a similar service, Aiven.io has dozen more options than Compose (basically all big cloud providers). We moved from AWS to Digital Ocean, which made us stop using Compose, since Compose forces us to be either on IBM or AWS. Incentivized Alfred Reinold Baudisch Co-Founder and CEO Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	I am very fond of the features and reliability of the compose DaaS, however I could switch if I find same qualities for lower price. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	IBM Cloud Databases' pricing structure is easy to understand, and if you choose the right product, you can operate your system at minimal cost. Although there is ample documentation available, there doesn't seem to be a user community running on it, so specific usage know-how and troubleshooting can sometimes take longer than expected. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Support is helpful enough, but we haven't always had questions answered in a satisfactory manner. At one time we realized that Compose had stopped taking database snapshots on its two-per-day schedule, and had in fact not taken one for many days. Support recognized the problem and it was fixed, but the lack of proactive checks and the inability to share exactly what happened has caused us to look elsewhere for production work loads Incentivized Joshua Dickson Founder & CEO Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	The reason why I choose IBM Cloud Databases is that the IBM cloud toolset is already being used in other functions of the company and by using IBM Cloud Databases, the other cloud tools are better embedded and integrated. If the company is set to use amazon tools, I would go for rds. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Prove use cases prior to administering entire platform, obtain ROI faster Able to achieve the technological components of our advanced analytics team without full scale purchase of AI platform Developed several studies to prove out cloud Db value, speed to deploy Incentivized Ben Holmes Business Intelligence Supervisor Read full review
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