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    IBM Cloud Databases

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM 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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    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.
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    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 …
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    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
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    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
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    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 …
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    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
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    No I haven't yet used other ones more so can't make a judgement
    Incentivized
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    We started with IBM Compose, which later got merged into and became IBM Cloud Databases.
    Incentivized
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    We've chose IBM Cloud Databases due to uptime, high performance, and redundancy.
    Incentivized
    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
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    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
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    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
    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
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    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
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    We are still evaluating the differences between IBM Cloud Databases and AWS Postgres instances.
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    Incentivized
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    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
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    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
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    Solr was not available on Compose and had to be hosted internally
    Incentivized
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    UI/UX was much better with ibm compose.
    Incentivized
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    I have only used self-hosted servers in the past.
    Incentivized
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    Features
    IBM Cloud Databases
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    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of IBM Cloud Databases
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    IBM Cloud Databases
    7.0
    93 Ratings
    Automatic software patching8.577 Ratings
    Database scalability8.587 Ratings
    Automated backups6.890 Ratings
    Database security provisions8.783 Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics4.287 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment5.269 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud Databases
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (95 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (10 ratings)