IBM Cloud Database Services

Unlock innovation with highly secure, fully-managed Database-as-a-Service capabilities on IBM Cloud®

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

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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.

Comprehensive portfolio of cloud-native databases

Supports structured, unstructured, SQL, NoSQL, IoT, blockchain and more, with full integration across IBM Cloud services in compute, observability, identity and access management.

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 throughout integration with IBM® Key Protect or IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services.

Products

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® 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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Databases for MongoDB

A NoSQL JSON document store with  a rich query and aggregation framework.

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Databases for Redis

The best in-memory database for ultra fast speed and throughput.

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Cloudant

A scalable NoSQL JSON document database for web,mobile, IoT and serverless applications, based  on Apache CouchDB.

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Databases for Elasticsearch

Go-to answer for search-driven, high data-volume storage and retrieval challenges Full-text Search, Vector Store.

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Event Streams

Event streaming platform built on open source Apache Kafka. It is available both as a fully managed service on IBM Cloud or on-premise as part of Event Automation.

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Messages for RabbitMQ

Highly robust & most widely deployed message broker(middleware), deployed in distributed systems.

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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. 

Read more
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.

Read more
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. 

Read more
Databases for MongoDB

A NoSQL JSON document store with  a rich query and aggregation framework.

Read more
Databases for Redis

The best in-memory database for ultra fast speed and throughput.

Read more
Cloudant

A scalable NoSQL JSON document database for web,mobile, IoT and serverless applications, based  on Apache CouchDB.

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Databases for Elasticsearch

Go-to answer for search-driven, high data-volume storage and retrieval challenges Full-text Search, Vector Store.

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Event Streams

Event streaming platform built on open source Apache Kafka. It is available both as a fully managed service on IBM Cloud or on-premise as part of Event Automation.

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Messages for RabbitMQ

Highly robust & most widely deployed message broker(middleware), deployed in distributed systems.

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Use cases

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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.

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Customer-facing digital experiences

Databases power real-time, user-centric applications such as mobile apps, web portals and personalized digital services. They support functions like user profiles, recommendation engines, session management and content delivery across industries such as retail, media, travel and financial services.

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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.

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AI and machine learning workloads

Managed databases serve as reliable, scalable data sources for training and operationalizing AI models. They store features, labels and inference outputs, enabling use cases such as predictive maintenance in manufacturing, fraud detection in banking, demand forecasting in retail and intelligent automation across many sectors.

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