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    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

    Workato

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AWorkato is a cloud or on-premise automation and integration platform with enterprise-grade capabilities and no coding required. Workato provides pre-built connectors to integrate with over 300 business applications and enables task automation across apps.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM CloudantWorkato
    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 CloudantWorkato
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM CloudantWorkato
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
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    Workato
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    57%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    50%
    Delivers good value for the price
    3 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    71%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    67%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    IBM CloudantWorkato
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of IBM Cloudant and Workato
    Feature
    IBM Cloudant
    9.1
    21 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Workato
    -
    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
    Cloud Data Integration
    Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of IBM Cloudant and Workato
    Feature
    IBM Cloudant
    -
    Ratings
    Workato
    8.0
    38 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Pre-built connectors00 Ratings10.038 Ratings
    Connector modification00 Ratings10.036 Ratings
    Support for real-time and batch integration00 Ratings5.034 Ratings
    Data quality services00 Ratings6.031 Ratings
    Data security features00 Ratings9.034 Ratings
    Monitoring console00 Ratings8.038 Ratings
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    IBM CloudantWorkato
    Small Businesses
    RavenDB
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Make
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon DynamoDB
    Score7.9 out of 10
    IBM App Connect
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Amazon DynamoDB
    Score7.9 out of 10
    TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM CloudantWorkato
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (45 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.6
    (23 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM CloudantWorkato
    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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    Workato
    Workato is brilliant to make separate applications work together without much effort or specialists being needed. When specific events on software A should trigger actions on B (or more) and you want that to happen without any development or big budgets, that's where Workato comes into play. It's a great help if you want tasks automated, communications flowing and data synced between different applications.
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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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    Workato
    • The Workato product interface is brilliantly thought through and designed. The learning curve for first timers is easy enough to get started and build useful things, and Workato really shines in their ability to handle complex triggers and interactions. Workato allows people to build software apps so much faster than by coding each functionality.
    • Workato has fantastic documentation, making things accessible without any holes in the product. The product just works, never has any bugs, never lags, and just generally allows us to see and change exactly what we need to.
    • Workato has an absolutely amazing support team. We tried the free version for a while, then realized it was the single most important software tool we have, and we upgraded. The support at the paid tier is A+, seriously the best from any company we've worked with. Feels more like a good friend then a support rep.
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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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    Workato
    • Customer support - responsive, but often not equipped to help efficiently identify root cause of issue. Need to improve escalation to technical resources and turnaround time
    • Recipe organization and sharing. Can be challenging to copy recipes, or grab recipes from publicly available site. There are often dependencies and errors that have vague descriptions.
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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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    Workato
    We need to develop Enterprise Application Integrations and Workato was not designed for this
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Workato
    The sheer work Workato eliminates from people's daily jobs is simply a great contribution to people's productivity and a boost to capability. It actually strikes the balance between business and tech teams. It also reduces dependency on developers, and speeds up their delivery too. The only reason it's not a full 10/10 is for the price - it's a bit expensive for what we'd like, and their batch or high data volume processing can be improved.
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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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    Workato
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Workato
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Workato
    They employ an extremely knowledgeable team of problem solvers. I've never had a disappointing interaction or one that has left me still searching for answers. I know that when I ask for help, they'll partner with me until we find a solution together
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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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    Workato
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Workato
    We discovered that we could not use Workato for our more complex, large enterprise integrations. It was useful for simple workflows that matched the prebuilt recipes.
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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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    Workato
    We already used Zapier, but since it doesn't support NetSuite we had to choose another automation platform. Now that we've been using Workato for a few months, we have plans to move the stuff we're going through Zapier to Workato. We set up a trial account with all the other platforms, and they were all more expensive and A LOT more complicated than Workato.
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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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    Workato
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Workato
    • As business consultants, Workato has greatly improved our offerings to our clients as well as improved the time frame to implement automated workflows and integrations.
    • For our clients, the return on investment is almost immediate. Once a Workato recipe is up and running (which can be done very fast), data is integrating, duplicate data entry and user errors are eliminated, and cross-company KPI metrics are easier to report than ever.
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