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Feature Set Ratings
NoSQL Databases
8.9
IBM Cloudant
89%
Oracle Database Cloud Service
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
IBM Cloudant ranks higher in 7/7 features
IBM Cloudant ranks higher in 7/7 features
Performance
8.7
87%
18 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Availability
9.1
91%
18 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Concurrency
8.6
86%
18 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Security
9.1
91%
18 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Scalability
9.6
96%
18 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Data model flexibility
7.5
75%
18 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility
9.6
96%
18 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Database-as-a-Service
IBM Cloudant
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
9.7
Oracle Database Cloud Service
97%
Oracle Database Cloud Service ranks higher in 6/6 features
Oracle Database Cloud Service ranks higher in 6/6 features
Automatic software patching
N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
90%
4 Ratings
Database scalability
N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Automated backups
N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Database security provisions
N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics
N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
90%
4 Ratings
Automatic host deployment
N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- IBM Cloudant is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
IBM Cloudant
91%
42 Ratings
9.0
Oracle Database Cloud Service
90%
4 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
7.3
IBM Cloudant
73%
1 Rating
Oracle Database Cloud Service
N/A
0 Ratings
Usability
7.7
IBM Cloudant
77%
5 Ratings
Oracle Database Cloud Service
N/A
0 Ratings
Availability
8.2
IBM Cloudant
82%
2 Ratings
Oracle Database Cloud Service
N/A
0 Ratings
Performance
8.2
IBM Cloudant
82%
2 Ratings
Oracle Database Cloud Service
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
8.6
IBM Cloudant
86%
6 Ratings
Oracle Database Cloud Service
N/A
0 Ratings
Online Training
7.3
IBM Cloudant
73%
2 Ratings
Oracle Database Cloud Service
N/A
0 Ratings
Implementation Rating
8.2
IBM Cloudant
82%
8 Ratings
Oracle Database Cloud Service
N/A
0 Ratings
Product Scalability
8.6
IBM Cloudant
86%
21 Ratings
Oracle Database Cloud Service
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloudant
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.

Verified User
General Manager in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employeesOracle Database Cloud Service
- Cost Effective & Flexible: Customers can start as low as a single OCPU VM up to 24 OCPUs. Customers pay only for OCPUs and Storage used.
- Ease Of Getting Started: Customers can easily create Oracle Certified, full-featured, fully supported 11g, 12c (both 12.1 & 12.2) databases with choice of any database edition.
- Built-in High Availability Constructs: Customers can easily deploy 2-node RAC configurations with all the VM shapes. For example: Easily deploy a 2-node RAC configuration with 2 core Virtual Machines and shared block storage of up to 40 TB.
- Durable & Scalable Storage: Customers can use remote storage starting at 256GB up to 40 TB. Storage can be scale up with no downtime.
- Secure: Customers still get all the advantages of our Oracle IAM for management control and VCN Security lists for securing their database environments.
Technical Lead, AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Centroid SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees
Pros
IBM Cloudant
- 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!!
Director - Data and Analytics Services (Presales)
Miracle Software Systems, IncComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
- Eliminates the requirement of hardware and installation.
- Minimizes the cost of operation and maintenance.
- Scalable to meet the increase in requirements.
- Enhances integrity, connectivity and performance of our applications.
- Reliable in terms of data security.
- Improved speed of querying and searching.
Project Manager
Softronic Systems (Pvt) LimitedComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Cons
IBM Cloudant
- 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.

Verified User
Analyst in Marketing
Retail Company, 51-200 employeesOracle Database Cloud Service
- When we restart the DBaaS instance, it seems like we had to add the NIC network back again. I'm not sure if it's specific to our instance configuration!

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 501-1000 employeesPricing Details
IBM Cloudant
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0 20 reads/second ; 10 writes/second ; 5 global queries / second ; 1 GB of storage capacity
IBM Cloudant Editions & Modules
Edition
Lite | Free1 |
---|---|
Standard | $752 |
Standard | Included3 |
Standard | $14 |
- 20 reads/second ; 10 writes/second ; 5 global queries / second ; 1 GB of storage capacity
- per month 100 reads/second ; 50 writes/second ; 5 global queries/second
- per month 20 GB of storage
- per month per GB of storage above the included 20 GB
Additional Pricing Details
—Oracle Database Cloud Service
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Oracle Database Cloud Service Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
IBM Cloudant
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
General Manager
SupermioComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Usability
IBM Cloudant
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.
Developer
Qubit NetworksTelecommunications, 11-50 employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
IBM Cloudant
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.
customer service leader
ifoxComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Performance
IBM Cloudant
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.
customer service leader
ifoxComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
IBM Cloudant
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.
VP of Engineering
AirFi / MI AirlineInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Online Training
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant 7.3
Based on 2 answers
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
General Manager
SupermioComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
IBM Cloudant
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.
VP of Engineering
AirFi / MI AirlineInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
IBM Cloudant
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.

Verified User
Executive in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employeesOracle Database Cloud Service
I would prefer the oracle database as service where my complete implementation is on Oracle Cloud Platform and as BI Implementation where datawarehouse is built on oracle database.

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesScalability
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant 8.6
Based on 21 answers
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.
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
YukonBabyHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
IBM Cloudant
- 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.
Information Technology Manager
Gorgeous Smiles DentalHospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
- Billing on Hosted Environment per hour, OCPU per hour, block volumes, object storage, etc.
- Costing & maintenance, patching.
- Security & TDE cycles.
- Backups & recovery.
- The features are complemented by database lifecycle management features, like configuration management, performance management, patch automation, etc. which make the solution complete from a DBaaS administrator’s perspective as well.
- Manager 12c covers all the major use cases for DBaaS, which yield significant business benefits and high ROI.
Technical Lead, AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Centroid SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees