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.

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.
• **Distributed cloud enabled: **Many IBM Cloud database services solutions run with IBM Cloud Satellite® for distributed cloud workloads. Deploy on premises, edge locations or other clouds.