IBM Cloudant vs Oracle Autonomous Database | TrustRadius

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Score 8.6 out of 10

Based on 104 reviews and ratings

Score 7.6 out of 10

Based on 29 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

IBM Cloudant

Oracle Autonomous Database

Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

IBM Cloudant

Oracle Autonomous Database

Version control tools

Test data generation

Performance optimization tools

Schema maintenance

Database change management

IBM Cloudant

Oracle Autonomous Database

User management

Database security

Database status reporting

Change management

Pros

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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Robust - this product doesn't have a lot of downtime. It's less prone to errors than some other tools I've worked with.
Scalable - we can keep adding more things to it. We haven't hit any roadblocks when we've tried to do more with our database.

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Manager - Merchandising Application Development

Burlington Stores, Inc.Retail, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

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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Autonomous DB integration with PeopleSoft. Issues noticed in the application.
More flexibility of user access to DB OS.
External connections using DB link is not possible .
Appears sophisticated as a majority of the controls reside with Oracle in terms of security, patching, maintenance, tuning. Less responsibility to a proficient DBA.

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Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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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Oracle Autonomous Database 7.0

Based on 1 answer

Autonomous is the way of the future and this is one system which is crucial to any system and is also autonomous.It is self-tuning and self-maintaining which are major advantages.

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Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Features provided by Oracle Autonomous Database including automation, high availability, self-securing, self-repairing and automated database tuning are hugely unique and are not supported by products from other vendors. According to the research we have performed so far, it seems that the introduction of machine learning algorithms is a winning factor that will become more and more desirable in the world of enterprise database products.

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Employee in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Scalability

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

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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Oracle Autonomous Database, and the safe harbor statements, are good, and when it comes to availability Oracle should control the number of bugs we hit every year, and they need to test all those bugs and the impacts before they release. They may be doing it today, but still, they need to invest their money into it. Even TDE is new and needs to improve a lot. The troubleshooting with TDE and skill level in Oracle needs to improve.

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Verified User

Employee in Finance and Accounting

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Rating Summary

IBM Cloudant

Oracle Autonomous Database

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