| Compose | |
| Company Type: | Private |
| Parent: | IBM |
| Founder: | Ben Wyrosdick Jason McCay Kurt Mackey |
| Area Served: | Worldwide |
| Location City: | Mountain View, California |
| Location Country: | United States |
| Registration: | Required |
| Current Status: | Public |
| Language: | English |
| Website Type: | Database as a Service |
Compose was a private, Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform for securely hosting and managing shared and dedicated MongoDB instances. Compose was used by a majority of the cloud hosting service Heroku's MongoDB users, being the only remote Mongo host for over a year.[1]
Compose was an alumnus of the Y Combinator business incubator, Summer 2011 class.
In July 2011, Compose announced it received its first round of angel investment of $417,000 from Y Combinator, Lerer And SV Angel.[2] Shortly thereafter, MongoHQ acquired the competing Mongo host and automated provisioning software of MongoMachines.[3]
Compose currently integrates with 4 PaaS providers, with more slated in the future.[4]
They were named #4 in the top "10 Enterprise Cloud App Services of 2011" by Read Write Web.[5]
In August 2014, Compose renamed their company from MongoHQ.[6]
In July 2015, Compose was acquired by IBM [7]