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IBM Cloud® Database solutions mean results

IBM Cloud® Database solutions mean results

With IBM Cloud® Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) services, SME’s deliver and maintain ready-to-use, highly available, database instances, allowing developers and IT staff to focus on value added tasks and database software, infrastructure operations, database software updates, and backup. IBM Cloud® Database SMEs deliver and maintain ready-to-use, highly available, database instances freeing developer and IT staff time to focus on other priorities.

IBM Cloud supports an extensive portfolio of relational and no-relational (No-SQL)  non-relational (Non-SQL) databases and integrations to support building or migrating a wide range of application types across all industries. Relational databases structure data in a tabular format with a fixed schema, while non-relational databases use flexible schemas, organizing data differently depending on the database type. Irrespective of the type of non-relational database, they all aim to solve for the flexibility and scalability issues inherent in relational models which are not ideal for unstructured data formats, like text, video, and images.

USD250 free credit for New Users

New users of IBM Cloud® Databases, Event Streams, and Cloudant can receive a USD 250 credit. Apply code DSFREE250.

Benefits

Benefits

Comprehensive portfolio of cloud-native databases

Our commercial and open-source databases support any data you bring to IBM Cloud: structured, unstructured, SQL, NoSQL, IoT, blockchain and more. 

 

Fully managed databases

IBM Cloud® Databases allow developers and IT to focus on developing their applications while IBM deploys infrastructure operations, database software updates and backup.

Enterprise-tested cloud databases

IBM Cloud Databases have a global hybrid cloud scale design philosophy to take advantage of the elasticity and flexibility of the IBM Cloud.

Off the shelf security and compliance

Data-in-motion encryption through Transport Layer Security (TLS) and at-rest encryption for data on disk and backups throughtout integration with IBM® Key Protect or IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services.

IBM Cloud fully-integrated

Full integration with IBM Cloud services in compute, observability, identity and access management for a rounded developer experience.

Relational NoSQL Databases Integrations
IBM Cloud® Databases for PostgreSQL

A powerful, open-source object-relational database that is highly customizable with high availability, backup orchestration, point-in-time-recovery (PITR) and read replica with ease. 

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IBM Cloud® Databases for MySQL

Build mission-critical web applications that offer high performance with scalability and security. MySQL is de-facto standard for web applications and sites, part of LAMP Stack.

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IBM Cloud® Databases for EnterpriseDB

A PostgreSQL based database optimized for performance, developer productivity, and compatibility with Oracle.

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IBM® Db2® on Cloud

A next generation transational database. Rely on a dedicated operations team, PITR, and high-availability disaster recovery (HADR) with multizone region support and independent scaling. 

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Use cases

Use cases

Operational applications

Operational applications leverage managed databases to handle daily businesses operations by capturing and storing real-time data on operational events, enabling effective decision-making. This approach is applicable across various industries, including logistics, transportation, banking and e-commerce.

Analytical applications

Analytical applications dissect and analyze data to inform and drive business decision making across all data-driven industries. These applications are vital for tasks like pricing and packaging in e-commerce, planning and resource management in manufacturing, customer management and business intelligence in analytics, and IoT operations in logistics, among others.

Case studies

Resources

Resources

IBM named a Leader for cloud database management systems

For the second year in a row, Gartner named IBM a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for 2021 Cloud Database Management Systems based on its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

IBM Cloud Professional Architect

Build database skills through courses within the IBM Cloud Professional Architect curriculum. Validate your capabilities in an interactive curriculum that prepares you for IBM Cloud certification.

IBM Cloud Professional Developer

Build database skills through courses within the IBM Cloud Professional Developer curriculum. This interactive curriculum helps you prepare for professional-level certification.

The database buyer’s guide

Review a set of practical questions every business should ask when choosing open source and proprietary databases,

IBM Cloud® User Community

Access IBM Cloud databases services experts, and join other cloud IT ops managers, solution architects, SREs, and other professionals.

Next steps

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