watsonx.data subscription plans
IBM® watsonx.data is a data management solution for collecting, storing, querying, and analyzing all your enterprise data with a single unified data platform. It provides a flexible and reliable platform that is optimized to work on open data formats.
watsonx.data can be deployed in one of the following ways:
- Stand-alone software on Red Hat OpenShift. For more information, see IBM® watsonx.data.
- watsonx.data on Cloud Pak for Data. For more information, see IBM® watsonx.data on Cloud Pak for Data.
- SaaS - on IBM Cloud and AWS. For more information, see IBM watsonx.data as a Service on AWS.
- Additionally the watsonx.data Developer edition can be installed for POC purposes. For more information, see IBM® watsonx.data.
On IBM Cloud, watsonx.data is offered under two pricing plans, as follows:
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Lite plan : For information, see watsonx.data Lite plan.
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Enterprise plan : For information, see watsonx.data enterprise plan.
Each region has a finite number of watsonx.data instances that are provisioned based on the current compute capacity. Regions might reach their capacity limits temporarily. While IBM adds additional capacity, you can either wait or redirect your request to another region. If the resource capacity is exceeded, you get the following message.
The new instance cannot be created because of resource capacity restrictions. Please use another region, or retry later when additional capacity may be available in the current region.
Lite plan
The Lite plan is provided for you to try the basic features of watsonx.data and is available to all IBM Cloud account types like trial, pay-as-you-go, and subscription. It supports the basic features only. It is not available on AWS and is limited to one watsonx.data instance per IBM Cloud account (cross-regional).
To provision a Lite plan instance, see watsonx.data Lite plan.
Key supported features
- Ability to monitor Resource Unit usage across Lite plan instances per an account and provision a new Lite plan instance based on the Resource Unit availability.
- Ability to pause and resume Presto engine.
- Ability to provision, unprovision, pause and resume Spark engine.
- Ability to connect to an IBM Cloud-provided Cloud Object Storage (COS) bucket and provide credentials to your own COS or S3 bucket.
- Ability to delete Presto, Spark, Milvus, and connections to your own bucket.
Limitations
- The Lite plan is limited to 2000 resource units (RUs) before the instance is suspended. The cap value is displayed on the IBM Cloud catalog provisioning page and is reflected on your billing page within your watsonx.data instance upon provisioning. Your plan expires on reaching either the limit of 2000 RUs or exceeding the trial period of 30 days.
- The Lite plan is limited to a maximum of one Presto engine, one Spark engine (small size, single node) or Milvus service with starter size (1.25 RUs per hour) or all three.
- The Lite plan is limited to the smallest node sizes and profiles for each engine and service. You cannot increase the node size.
- The Lite plan instances cannot be used for production purposes.
- The Lite plan might be removed anytime.
- The Lite instances are unrecoverable (no BCDR).
- Engine scaling functionality is not available in the Lite plan.
- Milvus back up is not available with the Lite plan.
You must be connected to your own bucket to save and backup any data that is external to the Lite instance before full consumption of the Lite plan resource units.
To upgrade to another plan, you must have a pay-as-you-go or subscription IBM Cloud account and provision a distinct Enterprise instance of watsonx.data.
Enterprise plan
You must have a pay-as-you-go or subscription IBM Cloud account to avail the Enterprise plan. It is available on IBM Cloud and AWS environments. Presto engine and Milvus service are available with this plan.
Key supported features
- Ability to scale (increase and decrease) node sizes for Presto engines.
- Ability pause and resume Presto engines.