IBM Cloud Databases vs. MySQL

IBM Cloud Databases

233 Reviews and Ratings

MySQL

971 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Cloud Databases	Score8.6 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
MySQL	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	MySQL is a popular open-source relational and embedded database, now owned by Oracle.	N/A

Pricing

IBM Cloud Databases

MySQL

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Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Databases	MySQL
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	IBM Cloud Databases	MySQL
Considered Both Products	IBM Juan Garnier CEO at NXT GENERATION SPORTS BETTING (Gambling & Casinos, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Databases Well for MySQL we had to use Amazon because of the pricing structure. We are using Mongo on Compose and it has been pretty good to us for the past 2 years. We are moving all of our databases to Amazon for the customer support and pricing structure that is competitive to Compose, Incentivized Helpful? Christy Herron Software Developer in Information Technology at Developd (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Databases Admin for MySQL was flakey. MongoDB is much easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Raines Backend Software Engineer in Information Technology at 10 Digital Media Limited (Sports, 1-10 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Databases We use Amazon Aurora as our primary datastore and use IBM Compose Mongo as an alternative only when Aurora does not cover the use case well. Amazon DynamoDB looks good but doesn't have the same wealth of libraries and support which makes MongoDB easy to use and therefore was … Incentivized Helpful? Andrea Ciotti Software IT Architect in Information Technology at Nanosystems SRL (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Databases IBM Compose pricing is far more clear than Azure and Amazon. The web user interface is also very clear and simple. Incentivized Helpful? Leo van Snippenburg Owner, CTO in Information Technology at Editoo BV (Publishing, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Databases We use Amazon's RDS (MySQL database), Redislabs (Redis) and also MongoDB's Atlas. They all have their own advantages and disadvantages. For us, MongoDB's Atlas and Compose are obviously similar services. For now, we use Atlas to try new things (since they run the latest stable … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Databases While using IBM Bluemix to host our SaaS product in the Asia/Pacific region, PostgreSQL suited us for integrating well with IBM Cloud, and also being available within the same geographic region. Other products that we looked at: ElephantSQL provides At-Rest encryption, but this … Incentivized Helpful?	Oracle No answer on this topic
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Features

IBM Cloud Databases

MySQL

Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of IBM Cloud Databases and MySQL
Feature	IBM Cloud Databases 7.0 93 Ratings	MySQL - Ratings
Automatic software patching	8.577 Ratings	00 Ratings
Database scalability	8.587 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automated backups	6.890 Ratings	00 Ratings
Database security provisions	8.783 Ratings	00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	4.287 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	5.269 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	IBM Cloud Databases	MySQL
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (95 ratings)	9.3 (135 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (7 ratings)	9.9 (4 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (6 ratings)	8.0 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	1.0 (10 ratings)	8.6 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)