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IBM Cloudant vs Oracle Database Cloud Service

IBM Cloudant
104 Ratings
Oracle Database Cloud Service
29 Ratings

IBM Cloudant

104 Ratings
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Score 8.6 out of 100

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Oracle Database Cloud Service

29 Ratings
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Score 7.4 out of 100

Based on 29 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Cloudant

IBM Cloudant is generally a good tool for a NonSQL, document oriented Database as a Service. It is very scalable and reliable, and managed services through IBM seems to be working well. You can consider as almost no lock-in since it is based on CouchDB API structures and you can migrate to any other provider in the future if needed. If you need real Global Availability, like Asia / China you may need to look for alternatives.

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Oracle 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.

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Feature Rating Comparison

NoSQL Databases

IBM Cloudant
7.8
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Performance
IBM Cloudant
8.1
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Availability
IBM Cloudant
8.2
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Concurrency
IBM Cloudant
7.8
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Security
IBM Cloudant
8.0
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Scalability
IBM Cloudant
7.4
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Data model flexibility
IBM Cloudant
7.3
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Deployment model flexibility
IBM Cloudant
7.8
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Database-as-a-Service

IBM Cloudant
—
Oracle Database Cloud Service
9.7
Automatic software patching
IBM Cloudant
—
Oracle Database Cloud Service
9.2
Database scalability
IBM Cloudant
—
Oracle Database Cloud Service
10.0
Automated backups
IBM Cloudant
—
Oracle Database Cloud Service
10.0
Database security provisions
IBM Cloudant
—
Oracle Database Cloud Service
10.0
Monitoring and metrics
IBM Cloudant
—
Oracle Database Cloud Service
10.0
Automatic host deployment
IBM Cloudant
—
Oracle Database Cloud Service
9.2

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!!

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Oracle Database Cloud Service

  • It's easy to spin it up.
  • An easy backup and restore process.
  • Patching is made easy.
  • It connects to local clients without any issues.

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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.

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Oracle Database Cloud Service

  • It will be good to have UI control based auto backup options like retention of database backup, auto delete DB back-up.
  • Auto Extend Data Storage on existing local storage process needs to be little improved, it's not smooth to create the extension of data storage on local.
  • There should be some easy and better way of sending the DB monitor alerts (like Tablespace exceed,Index Space is full, High Performance Query on DB) to specific required email address.

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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

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Oracle Database Cloud Service

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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Oracle Database Cloud Service

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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Shiv Shivakumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Oracle Database Cloud Service

No score
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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.

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Oracle Database Cloud Service

No score
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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.

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Oracle Database Cloud Service

No score
No answers yet
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Online Training

IBM Cloudant

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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Oracle Database Cloud Service

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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Oracle Database Cloud Service

No score
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Alternatives Considered

IBM Cloudant

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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Oracle Database Cloud Service

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. As we saw above, Enterprise
Manager 12c covers all the major use cases for DBaaS, which yield significant business benefits and
high ROI.

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Nagabhushan Krishnappa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nagabhushan Krishnappa
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Scalability

IBM Cloudant

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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Oracle Database Cloud Service

No score
No answers yet
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Return on Investment

IBM Cloudant

  • 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 | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Oracle Database Cloud Service

  • It's definitely a cheaper database service.
  • It's more reliable, and integrates well with other cloud applications.

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Pricing Details

IBM Cloudant

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Oracle Database Cloud Service

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Rating Summary

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Cloudant
7.9
Oracle Database Cloud Service
8.5

Likelihood to Renew

IBM Cloudant
7.3
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Usability

IBM Cloudant
7.7
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Reliability and Availability

IBM Cloudant
8.2
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Performance

IBM Cloudant
8.2
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Support Rating

IBM Cloudant
8.6
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Online Training

IBM Cloudant
7.3
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Implementation Rating

IBM Cloudant
8.2
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Scalability

IBM Cloudant
8.6
Oracle Database Cloud Service
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