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.
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 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.
