IBM Cloud Databases Review
November 11, 2019

IBM Cloud Databases Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • ICD redis
  • mongodb

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Databases (formerly Compose)

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.
  • It's taking more time for me to use MongoDB due to the strict connection that does not provide a good example to implement.
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.

IBM Cloud Databases Feature Ratings

Database-as-a-Service
9.0
Automatic software patching
9
Database scalability
9
Automated backups
9
Database security provisions
9
Monitoring and metrics
9
Automatic host deployment
9

Comments

  • Shannon Cardwell | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Shannon Cardwell
    (Vendor Representative) commented 5 years ago
    Hello,  This is Shannon from IBM Cloud, thanking you for your feedback and sharing your experience with IBM Cloud Databases.  We are glad the usability and price of the service has impacted your business in a positive way. We are sorry to hear you've been unable to find the documentation to support your use case.   For guidance on connecting to Redis, please visit https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/services/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-getting-started.  For migrating elasticsearch, please visit https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/services/databases-for-Elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-compose-migrating. As we continue to improve our product roadmap, your comments are extremely valuable.

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