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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Cloudant

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/ACloudant is an open source non-relational, distributed database service that requires zero-configuration. It's based on the Apache-backed CouchDB project and the creator of the open source BigCouch project. Cloudant's service provides integrated data management, search, and analytics engine designed for web applications. Cloudant scales your database on the CouchDB framework and provides hosting, administrative tools, analytics and commercial support for CouchDB and BigCouch. Cloudant is often…

    $1

    per month per GB of storage above the included 20 GB

    Jaspersoft

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AJaspersoft commercial edition is an embedded business intelligence suite designed to be built-into SaaS products as an integrated reporting engine. It provides reports and dashboards for customer-facing applications without requiring app developers to build their own reporting engine.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM CloudantJaspersoft
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $1
    per month per GB of storage above the included 20 GB
    Standard
    $75
    per month 100 reads/second ; 50 writes/second ; 5 global queries/second
    Lite
    Free
    20 reads/second ; 10 writes/second ; 5 global queries / second ; 1 GB of storage capacity
    Standard
    Included
    per month 20 GB of storage
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM CloudantJaspersoft
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Jaspersoft offers flexible pricing for ISVs and SaaS per customer or by CPU core.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM CloudantJaspersoft
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    No answer on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    71%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    IBM CloudantJaspersoft
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of IBM Cloudant and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Cloudant
    9.1
    21 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Jaspersoft
    -
    Ratings
    Performance9.721 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability8.321 Ratings00 Ratings
    Concurrency9.821 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security8.221 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability9.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data model flexibility9.821 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility9.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of IBM Cloudant and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Cloudant
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    100 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.687 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings7.588 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.886 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of IBM Cloudant and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Cloudant
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.4
    98 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.289 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.397 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.781 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of IBM Cloudant and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Cloudant
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    101 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings7.176 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.799 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.759 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings7.582 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.562 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of IBM Cloudant and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Cloudant
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    72 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.472 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.153 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of IBM Cloudant and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Cloudant
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    8.1
    98 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.194 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.192 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.588 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings7.773 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of IBM Cloudant and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Cloudant
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    6.6
    64 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.959 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings5.528 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.141 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of IBM Cloudant and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Cloudant
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    90 Ratings
    2% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings7.981 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings8.062 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings7.754 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings8.155 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.558 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.760 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    IBM CloudantJaspersoft
    Small Businesses
    RavenDB
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon DynamoDB
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Amazon DynamoDB
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM CloudantJaspersoft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (45 ratings)
    7.3
    (119 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    7.9
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
    (26 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    6.5
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    7.8
    (15 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.6
    (23 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM CloudantJaspersoft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    Our organization found Cloudant most suitable if One, a fixed pricing structure would make the most sense, for example in a situation where the project Cloudant is being used in makes its revenue in procurement or fixed retainer — thus the predictability of costs is paramount; Two, where you need to frequently edit the data and/or share access to the query engine to non-engineers — this is where the GUI shines.
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    Cloud Software Group
    It is well suited for the fact of scalability itself and the breadth of features this application has in order to make the migration from legacy systems to the newer different versions more seamless and effective. Data integrity and security are the main aspects of this tool which does not lose their value when doing day-to-day operations for data mapping.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • 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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    Cloud Software Group
    • TIBCO Jaspersoft allows you to embed reports into your own application, which gives users the feeling they are using a single product.
    • TIBCO Jaspersoft Studio allows for more advanced report development, such as adding subreports, drilldown to detail reports, images, page headers, page footers, maps, and more.
    • TIBCO's Jaspersoft Domain Designer is very easy to use and navigate.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • 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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    Cloud Software Group
    • One of the issues we found during our implementation was that the reporting software would work faster for certain data sources and not the others. Extracting CSVs and XML was slower in comparison to JSON in our experience.
    • Jaspersoft Studio was the main IDE we used for development. Built atop the Eclipse IDE, we found that the tool was really resource intensive and generally take long time to initialize.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    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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    Cloud Software Group
    JasperSoft has been amazing. It is well documented, fast, and transparent in how it functions. We have been very confident in JasperSoft in every aspect of our business and offerings where we've used it. On top of that, their improvements to the product have been fantastic. I am really looking forward to seeing where they take their product and how we can leverage that to please our clients
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    Usability
    IBM
    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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    Cloud Software Group
    I think it's a tool well suited for a software developer. Others with less coding skills could struggle somewhat with the tool. I find java a little unforgiving as a language for expressions and not very user friendly for the technically dis-inclined. Sometimes the numeric conversions cause issues (who knew that 0 and 0.0 would cause different things to happen). Previous experience with a reporting tool that used visual basic for its' expressions that I found much simpler to use. On the other hand, java is so widespread, you can easily google the syntax to accomplish what you need to do.
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    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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    Cloud Software Group
    We've never had an outage of the software itself. If it was unavailable, it was due to a network outage, not a problem with Jasper.
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    Performance
    IBM
    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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    Cloud Software Group
    Complex reports on heavy data load may take considerable amount of time. We have experinced some latencies/misfires regarding to this.
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    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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    Cloud Software Group
    They have a great customer support ticketing system in which they always respond same-day. They offer conference calls with srcreensharing as well in order to better understand your issues.
    I wish that the lower level support access came with more than just 12 cases per year though as this makes us less likely to reach out for questions on things that we then instead try to solve ourselves which results in loss of time in trying to acquire new features and or solve a problem.
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    In-Person Training
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    It did the job of getting us to our deadline we set for ourselves for initial launch. The customer we launched the product for was also there to learn about it at the same in order to better understand the capabilities. This helped greatly so that the customer was on the same page on what was possible when using jaspersoft. I think most people would not want their customers aware the product they are using is third-party but in this case it was a new experience for us both and so as we learned more about jaspersoft, we both had better communication on what the future road map was for their business needs in BI.
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    Online Training
    IBM
    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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    Cloud Software Group
    Resources available in the TIBCO Knowledge Base are covering almost everything. They are well organized, and covering almost every possibility. There is always the change to get back to the TIBCO support or to the dedicated Customer Success Manager whenever something very specific or bound to a customization is not covered.
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    • 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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    Cloud Software Group
    Having just completed an upgrade to the latest version of Jaspersoft, I am happy to say their support was very good. There were a couple of small challenges which were not easily resolved, but they were primarily related to the fact that we had skipped updates for a couple of versions. The current update procedures assumed we were upgrading from the prior latest version (6.4) to to the new version (7.1).
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    The feature-set, including security, is very comparable. Overall, IBM's services added to the product are mature and stable, although product support and engineers could be a little better. Global availability is improving, and Disaster Recover Capabilities are great. Overall, it's very comparable to MongoDB as a DBaaS offer, available globally and with great documentation.
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    Cloud Software Group
    When looking at the different features of these reporting engines, and what we were going to be using it for, the answer seemed clear. Jasper offered exactly what we were looking for, and did so for a price that we were happy with. For a scalable, feature-rich reporting engine that doesn't break the bank, Jaspersoft is the way to go.
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    Scalability
    IBM
    The service scales incredibly well. As you would expect from CloudDB and IBM combination. The only reason I wouldn't score it a 10 is the fact that document trees can get nested and nested very quickly if you are attempting to do very complex datasets. Which makes your code that much more complex to deal. Its very possible we could find a solution to this problem with better database planning to begin with, but one of the reasons we chose a service over a self-hosted solution was so we could set it up quick and forget about it. So we weren't going to dedicate a team to architecture optimization.
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    Cloud Software Group
    We haven't really started to explore the scalability of the product as yet, but in terms of existing deployments it has done what we need it to do.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • IBM Cloudant is very secure and we never have to worry about losing data/unauthorized access
    • It is one of the best data backup system and works well
    • Global availability means it is easy to connect to the nearest data center and this reduces load time which is great.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • When we demo our Jaspersoft environment to potential clients, their eyes light up and they sit up in their chairs a bit more. A lot of our meetings have ended with with the client very interested in our product due to Jaspersoft.
    • Our existing clients have been very satisfied with the adhoc features of Jaspersoft. We've been able to provide them better access to their data on their terms instead of ours. Of course this turns into a huge win for us.
    • We've always used SQL Server Reporting Services to deliver our reports to our clients. Converting to Jaspersoft has allowed us to generate the reporting layer that our clients demand. They no longer feel like they are settling for what we offer.
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