TrustRadius Insights for IBM Cloud Databases are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Scalability: Users have appreciated the scalability of IBM Cloud Databases, noting that it can easily accommodate growing data needs. They find the ability to scale on-demand based on requirements to be a significant advantage.
Fully Managed Service: The fully managed aspect of IBM Cloud Databases is well-received by users as it simplifies the database management process, allowing them to focus on other aspects of their business without worrying about database maintenance.
User-Friendly Interface: The user interface of IBM Cloud Databases is praised for being friendly, comprehensive, and easy to navigate. Users value how the intuitive design contributes to a seamless experience and efficient task completion.
Loading Reviews List....
IBM Cloud Databases Reviews
12 Reviews
Enterprises (1,001+ employees)
Search is temporarily unavailable. Filters are still applied.
The scope of our use case for IBM Cloud Databases spans multiple databases deployed in different environments, including development, testing, and production. We use several platform-supported database engines, such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis, depending on the specific requirements of our applications. Additionally, we leverage managed services and serverless architectures provided by IBM Cloud Databases to accelerate our application development workflows and improve agility in deploying new features and updates.
Pros
IBM Cloud Databases offers scalable database solutions that can easily accommodate growing data needs.
IBM Cloud Databases is a fully managed service.
IBM Cloud Databases seamlessly integrates with other IBM Cloud services and solutions.
Cons
Limited Database Options.
Migrating away from IBM Cloud Databases to another provider or on-premises solution can be challenging and may require significant time.
Learning Curve.
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud Databases is well-suited for hybrid cloud deployments where organizations require seamless integration between on-premises and cloud-based databases. For instance, companies with existing on-premises database infrastructure can leverage the platform's hybrid cloud capabilities to extend their data center to the cloud, enabling hybrid cloud architectures for workload flexibility, disaster recovery, and data synchronization
IBM Cloud database solutions offer a complete portfolio of managed services for data and analytics — a hybrid, open source-based approach that addresses the data-intensive needs of application developers, data scientists and IT architects to deliver immediate and longer-term benefits.
Initially, we faced some consistency issues, but later it was fixed with the help from IBM Support Team
Documentation needs to be updated with more details on the latest and new features added.
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud Databases is well suited for medium to large-sized applications. It has simple steps for migration and deployment, along with useful features on the dashboard for easy management by business users.
IBM Cloud Databases is well suited when the IBM cloud toolset is widely used in your organization and the goal is to store structured datasets into the databases that the end-users are planning to leverage SQL to pull the data out. If the data is unstructured then you should use object storage.
VU
Verified User
Analyst in Professional Services (10,001+ employees)
The platform is extensive with plenty of options and integrations available and can be used in companies. It can be easily Deployment One Window Solution Central Management. It is very convenient to be able to host both on the same platform, and meetings are typically quite easy to start and reliable. With the help of a firewall, hypervisor-based isolation is possible.
Can be linked through multiple resources and information
Cons
More added features for diverse users.
More cloud geographic locations
End to end encryption
Likelihood to Recommend
Ibm Cloud are well suited for students and local levels to use and learn. At industrial level , once expertise in working and functioning of cloud is achieved , IBM clouds are one of the most competitive and comparable feature. Development and resources in IBM cloud are outstanding. Functional equivalence. BDA can be helpful in IBM clouds as well as AI connectivity via Watson.
it helps with off site storage and has very easy recall. it is a fast service that we trust very much. we like the way that it operates and provides access to all things that we need. it offers a lot of options to best suit our business needs which are abundant and diverse. but we enjoy using the system overall.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Connectivity to our on-premise applications is a struggle
Likelihood to Recommend
We are using the analytics environment in the cloud for IBM, so it makes most sense to use the cloud based Dbs available. We have some structured data that is important to our analytics, and dragging it down to IBM cloud has had good success. The unstructured data that we need to work with has all the resources it needs for the various cloud Db options.
We use IBM Cloud Databases as the core for transactions for our applications, which, in turn, are sold as SaaS. Postgres as a service helps us to focus on our product, reducing maintenance and administration costs and availability.
Pros
Backups
Availability
Simplicity
Cons
Interface
Configuration
Intermediate offerings
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud Databases are well suited for service simplification.
VU
Verified User
General Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
