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.
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IBM Cloud Databases Reviews
74 Reviews
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
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Provide more products like Cloud Databases for MySQL
More UI features and functionality
Likelihood to Recommend
I think the best use case for using IBM Cloud Databases is when other products in the IBM Cloud ecosystem are being used. It works very well when computing is being used, or any other IBM cloud products really. I could also see these products being really useful in any scenario where a managed database is wanted with little overhead to set it up and manage it.
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Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development (11-50 employees)
Understanding the choices between different database packages
Setting up a cloud foundry connection - restored to SSL certification connection
Likelihood to Recommend
It's very well suited to trialing a database, or databases, allowing you to add subtract and build an infrastructure to suit your need and swap and change as required or desired. Also, it allows you to try different types of data storage easily and experiment with set-up configuration and resources. Web management interface management is clear, clean, and reactive.
Everything under one roof, having all our data needs taken care of from a single vendor makes management much easier
Integrates with IBM Cloud platform natively
Cons
Does not support Let's Encrypt for secured connection. Currently IBM Cloud Databases only support self-signed certificate, which is more troublesome to configure.
Due to compliance requirements, IBM Cloud Databases have a tendency to deprecate and EOL various older versions of the databases offered, sometimes you have very short window to upgrade.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are on IBM Cloud, then using IBM Cloud Databases is an obvious choice. It is natively available and offers a wide range of different database products that would cover most common use cases. If you are not on IBM Cloud but are interested to use the databases offered, such as MongoDB, it is still a viable option as sometimes it can be more cost effective compared to alternatives.
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Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (1-10 employees)
We use it for our low-traffic cloud data warehousing and reporting on our HRM product. Using Compose made it relatively simple to scale up and down as per traffic. Also the pricing was quite cheap.
Provides a low-cost solution where we can place our data warehouses for multiple products. Tied in with Watson Studio it provides great utility for our data scientists.
Pros
Scaling
Pricing
Documentation
Cons
Used to use third-party providers. Not the latest version.
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud Databases is well suited to production grade applications, websites, low volume data warehousing, and light AI work.
IBM Cloud Databases is being used across my entire organization. I enjoy using the product but there are definitely areas for IBM Cloud to improve. Definitely very little documentation, and not enough examples across the web that support IBM Cloud, therefore, making it harder for smaller companies such as ours to use this product. When first beginning with IBM Cloud, it took us several weeks on the support page to get a good response on simple things that other cloud services would have already solved.
Pros
IBM Watson
Cons
App ID
PostgreSQL as a service, especially with the IBM cloud user documentation
Cloud foundry and react starters
Likelihood to Recommend
Great with IBM Watson, but still needs more work with app ID and PostgreSQL as a service.
Currently, we are using Mlab for our products. Hence we are looking for alternatives as it's moving to MongoDB atlas. The price structure with IBM seems quite suitable for us as we are still a growing company. At the same time, we are looking for easy integration between Redis and elastic search with IBM cloud databases for our product development. Hence, we start to research and experimenting between IBM Cloud Database and other providers.
Pros
I think the price point is affordable.
Easy to create a service.
Cons
I find it hard to establish the connections compared to Redis or MongoDB atlases.
Better documentation.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it's good that I do not need to set up a server to run an elastic search and can still use the benefits of the elastic search function. Similar to Redis and MongoDB. However, I still feel there's a lack of examples and use cases from IBM documentation.
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Verified User
C-Level Executive in Product Management (1-10 employees)
We are using IBM Cloud Databases across different departments. Currently, it's mainly used for POCs and to implement Cloud-Native architecture. We are using Cloudant and PostgreSQL. IBM Cloud Databases provide us easy to use redundancy and point in time recovery.
Pros
Strong backup strategy
Different database options including SQL and NoSQL
Fast database provisioning
Reduced the need for DBA
Cons
Would like more database options added, e.g Cassandra DB
Limited data centre options
No data browser available for PostgreSQL
Likelihood to Recommend
It offers strong support for PostgreSQL and Cloudant. It has an easy UI to work with and to scale PostgreSQL. Data at-rest and desk encryption of PostgreSQL is available.
IBM Cloud Databases is used (along with IBM Cloud Object Store) as part of a backend system supporting client, eGrove Education Inc.'s, mobile app which helps high school and college STEM students develop their spatial visualization skills through automatically-graded free-hand sketching in a mobile app.
A CloudFoundry app uses IBM Cloud Databases as a synchronization source/sink and system of record for assigned material (both text and media blob data), course rosters, grading results, etc. (Because of the volume of student-produced sketches, student sketches are stored in Cloud Object Store).
Pros
ACID Compliance vs non-ACID compliance of the most popular open-source relational database (MySQL).
Fully managed solution: no bumbling with server installation/setup/maintenance.
Reliable high-availability implementation.
Cons
Yet more fine-grained provisioning (but thanks for the improvements!) For example, currently there is a 3-core minimum for dedicated cores.
Likelihood to Recommend
This is my current go-to solution where a relational database in the cloud is a requirement. The IBM Cloud Databases PostgreSQL implementation is particular attractive vs. alternatives available from other cloud providers because of relational databases scale "up" well (while generally not scaling "out" well or at all) and IBM is able to offer the ultimate scale-up, the recently available, Hyper Protect DBAAS. I can build today on IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL with the knowledge that in the future, if needed, I can scale up to a solution running on massive Z-Series hardware that is at the same time much more secure (particularly from side-channel attack) than solutions running on Intel hardware.
