aid: compose
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/compose.png
name: Compose
description: >-
  Compose (Compose, Inc., compose.io) was a database-as-a-service (DBaaS)
  provider that offered production-ready, auto-scaling, hosted deployments of
  open-source databases — MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ,
  RethinkDB, ScyllaDB, etcd, MySQL, and Disque — each provisioned with high
  availability, automated backups, and a REST API for programmatic management.
  Founded in 2010 as MongoHQ and rebranded to Compose in 2014, the company was
  backed by DCVC (Data Collective) and was acquired by IBM in 2015, after which
  the offering was folded into IBM Cloud as "IBM Compose" / IBM Cloud Databases.
  The standalone Compose service and its developer surface (compose.com,
  compose.io, apidocs.compose.com) have since been deprecated and taken offline.
  This profile documents the surviving, verifiable first-party artifacts — the
  archived GitHub organization at github.com/compose, the official Go SDK
  (gocomposeapi) wrapping the Compose REST API, and the official command-line
  tools (bach, cocli).
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/compose/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- dcvc
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: IBM
x-acquired-year: 2015
x-service-status: defunct
x-former-names:
- MongoHQ
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Database
- Database as a Service
- DBaaS
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- Cloud
- Managed Database
apis: []
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/compose
  name: Compose GitHub organization (archived; "Compose were acquired by IBM")
- type: Packages
  url: packages/compose-packages.yml
  name: First-party Compose client libraries and CLIs
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/compose-packages.yml
  name: Official Go SDK for the Compose REST API (gocomposeapi)
- type: CLI
  url: cli/compose-cli.yml
  name: Official command line for the Compose API (bach)
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/compose/gocomposeapi
  name: gocomposeapi - Go wrapper around the Compose REST API (Apache-2.0)
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence