Amazon DynamoDB vs IBM Cloudant | TrustRadius

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Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 102 reviews and ratings

Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 108 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon DynamoDB

IBM Cloudant

Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

Pros

It's very easy to get started, creating a table with a partition/sort key and you're on your way.
You can scale up and down your read/write IO as needed.
You can store structured and unstructured data.
It works great with Web Development as it's JSON based.

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Founder, Owner

CodeLinguists LLCComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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For us, performance and scalability is the key, and Cloudant DB backed by CouchDB is scalable and performant.
IBM Cloudant dB is very easy to provision for sandbox, development, QA as well as production.
Support for Java for CouchDB app server analytics enables a greater control for over developers.
Schema free oriented very easy to program and build applications on it.
We love it!!

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Naresh Jasotani

Director - Data and Analytics Services (Presales)

Miracle Software Systems, IncComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Complex searching (no support for case-insensitive or full-text search).
Only supports up to two-key indexes.
Requires choosing the indexes up-front when doing searches.
Does not have an SQL compatible query front-end.
No join-table support (requires putting all data into one table).

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VP of Technology

NewstexComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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It was only after we went with the cloud-based solution that IBM rolled out an on-premise version.
We found that a 3rd-party ODBC driver was required for a few applications that needed to pull data out of Cloudant.
The sales process was difficult because the salesperson we used was not as versed on Cloudant as I had hoped.

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Verified User

Analyst in Marketing

Retail Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Amazon DynamoDB 8.7

Based on 34 answers

We will most likely continue to use DynamoDB for certain use-cases. If we stopped using DynamoDB as often, it would likely be because we started using Aurora Serverless more. Aurora Serverless may offer similar availability, management and cost benefits while allowing developers to use their MySQL tools and experience.

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Engineer in Engineering

Research Company, 11-50 employees

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IBM Cloudant 7.3

Based on 1 answer

the flexibility of NoSQL allow us to modify and upgrade our apps very fast and in a convenient way. Having the solution hosted by IBM is also giving us the chance to focus on features and the improvement of our apps. It's one thing less to be worried about

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victor pease solano

General Manager

SupermioComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Usability

No score

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IBM Cloudant 7.7

Based on 5 answers

It's mostly just a straight forward API to a data store. I knock one off for the full text search thing, but I don't need it much anyways. Also, the dashboard UI they give is pretty nice to use. It provides syntax-highlighting for writing views and queries are easy to test. I wish other DBs had a UI like this.

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Developer

Qubit NetworksTelecommunications, 11-50 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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IBM Cloudant 8.2

Based on 2 answers

it is a highly available solution in the IBM cloud portfolio and hence we have never had any issues with the data base being available - we also do continuous replication to be on the safer side just in case some thing goes awry. We also perform twice a year disaster recovery tests.

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Shiv Shivakumar

customer service leader

ifoxComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

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IBM Cloudant 8.2

Based on 2 answers

very easy to get started and is very developer friendly given that it uses couchDB analytics. It is a cloud based solution and hence there is no hardware investment in a server and staging the server to get started and the associated delays/bureaucracy involved to get started. Good documentation is also available.

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Shiv Shivakumar

customer service leader

ifoxComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

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IBM Cloudant 8.6

Based on 6 answers

Very happy by the commitment given by the team which has been really good over the last 7 years of usage.

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Nicolas Peeters

VP of Engineering

AirFi / MI AirlineInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

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IBM Cloudant 7.3

Based on 1 answer

online resources are good enough to understand but there is nothing like testing. In our case, we discovered some not documented behavior that we take in count now. Also, the experience in NodeJs is critical. Also, take in count that most of the "good practices" with cloudant are not in online courses but in blogs and pages from independent developers

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victor pease solano

General Manager

SupermioComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Implementation Rating

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IBM Cloudant 8.2

Based on 8 answers

Test the architecture on CouchDB helped us to address initial design flaws.
The migration to Cloudant as such was very painless.
We have migrate our replication system to Cloudant Android Sync for mobile devices.
We have regular informal contact with the Cloudant leadership to discuss our use cases and implementation strategies.

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Nicolas Peeters

VP of Engineering

AirFi / MI AirlineInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We evaluated using MongoDB or Amazon DyanmoDB. For us, the biggest advantage is that there's no maintenance cost for Amazon DynamoDB. Mongo gets complicated when you setup sharding. With Amazon DynamoDB, it's literally a push of button to increase throughput. This saves time and money on DevOps resources.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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It's easier to use than Dynamo, more open than Firebase, and has better documentation that CouchDB... it might not be fair to compare Modulus, Modulus obviously suffers from some scalability issues and might not be in the same class... but its a hosted DB service we had some experience with in the past....

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CTO (Chief Technical Officer)

YukonBabyHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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IBM Cloudant 8.6

Based on 21 answers

As a DB-as-a-Service, Cloudant has freed us from this kind of problem. Using the IBM Bluemix dashboard you can control how many transaction are executed in milliseconds and this is for now our rating of scalability between 200-24 milliseconds for one http POST (insert document), well under the project rate that was defined by an order of magnitude.

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Owner

NEWLOG Consulting SrlComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Since the Amazon manages the instance, the amount of time a developer needs to spend configuring the database is less. For comparison, if we were to manage the same instance manually, we need to set up EC2 instance, install the DB, setup backup scripts, track backup failures, which is a great overhead for the dev. Using DynamoDB this overhead is reduced and hence having a great ROI.
Great documentation and easy setup makes an easy learning curve to transition to DynamoDB. Only caveat is as with any database, the data structure should be thoroughly analyzed for types of querying because there are limitations with the DynamoDB API.
Ties very well with rest of the Amazon eco system. Having rest of the applications in Amazon allows managing the application security a breeze.

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Anudeep Palanki

Application Developer

Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees

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Saving in-terms of cost of procuring and maintaining hardware, which will be realized over the next 5 years.
Positive ROI in terms of the number of FTEs involved in maintaining our databases; our DBAs can now focus on other important and business critical applications.
Best ROI in terms of our organization's vision - they are no longer anxious / nervous to move to the cloud. We are already on the CLOUD.

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Naresh Jasotani

Director - Data and Analytics Services (Presales)

Miracle Software Systems, IncComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Amazon DynamoDB Editions & Modules

Edition

On-Demand - Write Operation	$1.25¹
On-Demand Read Operation	$0.25¹
On-Demand Data Stored	$0.25²
On-Demand Point-in-Time Recovery	$0.20²
On-Demand Snapshot	$0.10²
On-Demand Restoring a Backup	$0.15³
On-Demand Global Tables	$1.875⁴
On-Demand Streams	$0.02⁵
On-Demand Data Requests Outside AWS Regions	$0.09⁶
Provisioned - Write Operation	$0.00065⁷
Provisioned - Read Operation	$0.00013⁷
Provisioned - Data Stored	$0.25⁸
Provisioned - Point-in-Time Recovery	$0.20⁸
Provisioned - Snapshot	$0.10⁸
Provisioned - Restoring a Backup	$0.15⁹
Provisioned - Global Tables	$0.000975¹⁰
Provisioned - Streams	$0.02¹¹
Provisioned - Data Requests Outside AWS Regions	$0.09¹²

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

IBM Cloudant Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

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IBM Cloudant

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