Why use cloud databases?
Cloud databases on IBM Cloud™ are fully-managed databases built for critical, enterprise workloads offering high availability, security and flexible performance and scaling. Significant risk and cost are removed from development teams when using an IBM Cloud database-as-a-service solution that provides hosting, 24x7 management and automated high availability, backup and restore, version upgrades, security, and more. A cloud database from IBM can minimize the learning curve to a wide variety of NoSQL and SQL databases, and help enable your teams to focus on the right tool for the job, based on requirements and value, rather than on cost and familiarity.
Why use cloud databases on IBM Cloud?
Innovation, speed and time to market
Stop spending time on managing infrastructure, database provisioning and maintenance, and focus on what matters — innovating, building applications and bringing them to market.
Grow with confidence
Experience 99.99% high availability, guaranteed at any scale, backed by SLAs, and get high availability in multi-zone regions across multiple distinct data centers.
Enterprise-grade security
Get built-in security, privacy and compliance, and integrate additional security services to extend access control and auditing with a push of a button.
Cloud databases for SAP, ERPs, CRMs and ledgers
Client stories
ASICS Runkeeper chooses Cloudant to offer a concise, always-on app experience to its growing user base.
KONE Corporation uses Db2 Warehouse on Cloud to store and analyze sensor data from IBM Cloud Watson® IoT for more than 1.1 million elevators and escalators in buildings worldwide.
Comdata Inc.’s mobile app, powered by Cloudant, provides location-aware intelligence about the best options along each driver’s route, helping save time and money.
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue selected Db2 on Cloud to build an open-standard, collaborative model for business process discovery and development.
Allegiant Air uses Cloudant to help capture data from mobile and IoT devices and to improve the quality of existing customer data.
Water Mission is working with IBM Compose for MongoDB to help communities keep their water supplies sustainable for years to come.
Valor Holdings Co., Ltd., dramatically improved performance by migrating sales data and analysis to Db2 Warehouse on Cloud.
Get started with cloud databases on IBM Cloud
Start building with cloud databases on the IBM Cloud free tier Lite account — at no charge. Receive a USD 200 credit when you upgrade to Pay-As-You-Go, valid on any IBM Cloud service.