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name: cloud-databases-index
title: Choose your service
description: Cloud Databases are managed databases, and a messaging queue, that are hosted in IBM Cloud and integrated with other IBM Cloud services.
last-updated: 2025-12-04
---

> ## Documentation Index
> The table of contents for this documentation set is at https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?format=markdown
> The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# Choose your service
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Cloud Databases are managed databases, and a messaging queue, that are hosted in IBM Cloud and integrated with other IBM Cloud services.
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- **Databases for PostgreSQL** is a powerful, open source object-relational database that is highly customizable. For more information, see [Databases for PostgreSQL](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?format=markdown){: external}.
- **Databases for MongoDB** is a JSON document store with a rich query and aggregation framework. For more information, see [Databases for MongoDB](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?format=markdown){: external}. Databases for MongoDB offers two plans: **Standard** and **Enterprise**.
- **Databases for Redis** is a blazingly fast, in-memory data structure store. For more information, see [Databases for Redis](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?format=markdown){: external}.
- **Databases for Elasticsearch** combines the power of a full text search engine with the indexing strengths of a JSON document database. For more information, see [Databases for Elasticsearch](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?format=markdown){: external}. Databases for Elasticsearch offers two plans: **Enterprise** and **Platinum**.
- **Databases for MySQL** is fully managed MySQL relational database service. For more information, see [Databases for MySQL](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?format=markdown){: external}.
- **Messages for RabbitMQ** is an open source multi-protocol messaging broker. For more information, see [Messages for RabbitMQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/messages-for-rabbitmq?format=markdown){: external}.

## Next steps
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When you decided which Cloud Databases service suits your needs, [provision an instance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-getting-started-cdb-provision-instance&format=markdown).