IBM Cloudant Reviews & Ratings 2023

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Description: database management with Cloudant

Starting at $1 per month per GB of storage above the included 20 GB

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Overview

What is IBM Cloudant?

Recent Reviews

Outstanding Services and products!!!

10 out of 10

August 28, 2023

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Software development and cloud storage from IBM

Happily moved back to cloudant after hosting my own couchdb for a few years.

10 out of 10

March 14, 2023

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I recommend everyone who evaluated ibm cloudant in the past years since the cloudant aquisition and decided against it due to reliability …

My words on IBM cloudant

10 out of 10

November 09, 2022

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I used the ibm cloudant database to store the data, actually i want to store the data in nosql and cloudant is a no sql database, So its …

Cloudant – I Use It With My Erlang Stack

10 out of 10

August 02, 2022

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I use Cloudant like I use Couchdb. Each user has a database and I like the ease of use with authentication as well as falling back on …

A simple database with fully-featured GUI, "just works" scaling and replication, and straightforward pricing

8 out of 10

July 17, 2022

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We used the IBM Cloudant in two scenarios: One, for a simple place to persist text to be displayed in a chatbot that played nicely with …

IBM Cloudant review

8 out of 10

September 22, 2021

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Our department uses IBM Cloudant as a distributed NoSQL database solution for web-based applications. IBM Cloudant allows rapid writes of …

IBM Cloudant - Great for your organization!

10 out of 10

August 27, 2021

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I have primarily used [IBM] Cloudant to facilitate academic and non-profit research.

IBM Cloudant is the best hosted CouchDB out there

10 out of 10

July 18, 2021

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Our organization uses IBM Cloudant as a distributed NoSQL database solution for implementation on client applications in the Internet of …

IBM Cloudant - Great For Mobile and Web Based Applications

9 out of 10

June 24, 2021

We use IBM Cloudant for the hospital mobile health application. We also use IBM Cloudant as our primary database backup system and I can …

Great advantages and simplicity of deployment. It is as I would summarize the Cloudant service from IBM.

10 out of 10

May 30, 2021

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IBM Cloudant is used to have a central repository of clients' databases to which information generated in different branches that have …

Great experience with Cloudant

10 out of 10

April 29, 2021

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To deploy an application with continuous delivery using NodeJS and Cloudant in IBM cloud. The entire organization of almost 1000 people …

Scaling our data layer without headaches

9 out of 10

April 28, 2021

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Cloudant allows us to scale our data layer without worrying about the operations side of things to manage such a big cluster. Cloudant is …

Win-Win for IBM Cloud

9 out of 10

April 18, 2021

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We were using IBM Cloudant as our cloud storage platform for a project where we were collecting real-time environmental data. Later, we …

I like it, but not quite sure I love it

7 out of 10

March 27, 2021

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We use Cloudant to store production data used in analytics/machine learning models. We run an agricultural management platform to help …

Cloudant the best companion to IBM Blockchain Platform

9 out of 10

November 22, 2020

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We use Cloudant for replicate data from our Blockchain platform. With Cloudant we can make queries and reports for our managers that want …

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How IBM Cloudant Differs From Its Competitors

IBM Cloudant Time Savings

I haven’t it used it much personally for my own ventures but I seen and used it a little with the experience that I do hold , and I think it’s growing to be better along with the companies it helps too.

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IBM Cloudant Replication

I need more experience with the product to fully say for sure what my opinion is I’m sure it’s great and fully functional though.

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

Very happy with the outcome. We don't have to think about updating and managing containers anymore which saves a lot of work and cost. scaling is quite fast and can also be automated but we currently manual provision concurrent request needs.

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IBM Cloudant Replication

Not just improved but these features are critical every day needs for our applications.

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

Yes IBM cloudant provides the time and resources saving because of the auto scaling feature. Its automatically reduces the use of resources according to number of active sessions, if there are too many session then auto scaling uses high amount of cloudant, Otherwise it will be reduced according …

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

This feature is very useful but our application is available only for the india. So this feature is not providing benifits to us for now. But definitely when we will launch our product globally it will be very helpful feature to reduce the data transfer costing and overall operational cost.

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IBM Cloud Portfolio

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To run a project we need some necessary services like database, cloud servers, continues distributions and data analytics. So these other IBM products provides the extraordinary experience to …

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IBM Cloudant Replication

Been smooth using Rabbitmq, Cloudant, and Pouchdb. Replication of course is also very easy and out the box awesomeness. I don’t really scale largely yet but am working on it.

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Decision Factors

I absolutely love Couchdb and Cloudant is based on it so no learning curve. I am an Erlang dev so I know what it offers which is replication, uptime performance, view indexing and map reduce, easy to scale, and I know how the server works to do querying / http requests. Plus it solves document …

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Most Important Attributes

I will say Cloudant/Couchdb is my main go for years alongside using it with Rabbitmq is my normal Erlang stack. Reliability/uptime, easy to scale, easy to design, and simple querying just to name a few.

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Agile Development

Scalability, easy indexing, replicating, and creating views without a second thought is amazing.

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Managed Services

IBM has been great. After all this time I can remember only 1 time service was down. We come to expect from any company large or small there might be a day where downtime happens. The way Cloudant replicates you can leverage its advantage based on your strategies.

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

Not having to manually manage sharding, clusters, and other database maintenance operations significantly reduced the manpower requirement for projects that employ Cloudant. It is among a class of databases where it "just works." Predicting costs is also much easier since it is fixed and billed in …

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IBM Cloudant Replication

These replication capabilities are great in theory; However, we have not come across a situation where it has been a requirement. This is less a fault of the software and more related to the nature of our work. Nonetheless, it is great to have the option to replicate data in Cloudant to services …

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

Our operations, sources of data, and even all of our users are located in one country, in the Southeast Asia region. Being available in all IBM Cloud regions is really great for latency performance and/or compliance. Quite frankly, this is an area of IBM Cloud we found lacking — the availability …

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Decision Factors

In one application, we had to create a chatbot a la "Choose your own adventure" that should scale into thousands of different questions. The library was originally supplied as an XML file, so it just made perfect sense to convert it to a JSON like structure, then upload those documents into a …

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Most Important Attributes

I usually use NoSQL databases when I believe that a document model would work best. These are usually instances where a vast majority of the application operations involve simple inserts or reads of whole documents, or updating of attributes. I found IBM Cloudant sufficient for these instances. …

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Agile Development

I was previously in the camp that looked unfavorably towards the schema-less nature of NoSQL. However, once I got more experience using NoSQL and designing around document based data models, I came to appreciate the flexibility Cloudant's NoSQL model provides. New application capabilities that …

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Managed Services

One of the things I most appreciate about IBM Cloudant is the compute capacity allocation model. I can allocate capacity based on the actual read, write, and query throughput of my application, instead of having to guess the number of CPU cores and memory allocation. And unlike competitors that …

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

We are very impressed with [IBM] Cloudant's flexibility as it allows effective use of map-reduce to aggregate results out of collections defined within IBM Cloudant databases, allowing for millions of records to be aggregated and used effectively for analytics and reporting.

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IBM Cloudant Replication

These replications are very important and useful for protecting data and making it easily accessible. Replication to different locations helps to get high availability and to get quick responses.

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

Our department uses this feature to provide [the] high availability option with minimal downtime for their application's client.

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IBM Cloud Portfolio

IBM Cloud Foundry IBM Cloud Auto Scaling IBM Cloud Object Storage IBM Watson IoT

It's easy to create a connection/communication between IBM portfolio products and together it brings good value for our clients.

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

I haven’t really benefited from this since our numbers are still relatively small.

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IBM Cloudant Replication

Yes, as I mentioned earlier, this greatly facilitates share date with other researchers on the team.

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

Our current operation is pretty small, but this will be a great feature for us in the future.

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

We have achieved a great deal of savings on building out scaling capability through using IBM Cloudant. Scaling CouchDB databases can be very effort-intensive and expensive to manage in the long run due to various issues and unknown bugs. IBM Cloudant takes care of the scaling and operational …

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IBM Cloudant Replication

It was extremely beneficial for us to be able to replicate on-prem CouchDB databases to IBM Cloudant as we were initiating our move from using self-hosted CouchDB databases to IBM Cloudant. Since then, we have also been able to manage replication between different IBM Cloudant instances tied to …

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

We have not faced serious disaster situations with our IBM Cloudant implementations; however, within regular Disaster Recovery test scenarios that we run, it has proven that the high availability of IBM Cloudant across different regions is highly beneficial for our disaster recovery activities. …

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

By being fully managed, as the lead IT team I can relax and focus on other things because I do not have to worry about scaling, maintenance, operations. Even in case of problems, I can get notified - we haven't experienced problems yet.

IBM Cloudant Global Availability

We haven't benefited from global access because our company isn't global.

IBM Cloudant Time Savings

Considerable time savings have been achieved, and that time and the human resources that manage it have been turned to the attention of new services within the business line, which has resulted in an increase in our profits.

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IBM Cloudant Replication

The bidirectional replication of local environments from CouchDB to Cloudant is what has improved our operations since we have the self-administration of the Cloudant environment at our disposal and we avoid the problems that come with managing a proprietary platform of that type.

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

The deployments carried out so far have been within our region, Peru. We have not yet had a chance to test larger-scale deployments.

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

There is less chance of downtime for applications when we develop and manage an application with continuous delivery mode.

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

Yes, it is beneficial and anywhere we can handle the project.

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

Yes, Cloudant operations team manages the underlying systems on our behalf and the support team is very helpful and proactive. They monitoring when the system is reaching some critical metrics. Some operations like automated backups and exports for reporting are still up to our team, though.

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IBM Cloudant Replication

This is the killer feature of CouchDB which we use extensively. This hasn't much improved recently as such (it's been working well since the beginning).

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

No, it's not really part of our setup with Cloudant. They were not really proactive about this.
Cloudant wouldn't really scale to Terabytes level (if you have to change any view, that would be really problematic). For a real life database with many views, 50GB to 100GB seems to be the sweet spot in …

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Developer Efficiency

Clearly, this is one of the most important features of a PaaS like IBM Cloud (where Cloudant is hosted as a platform). It literally saves one DevOps FTE to manage the clusters and the bare metal or Cloud instances. No more worries about disk space and networking.

One thing that is missing though is …

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Integrations

- Applications that are eventually consistent and often offline.
- Replication is the killing feature of Cloudant/CouchDB. We use it extensively in our applications.

What you shouldn't use Cloudant for:
- Reporting, ad-hoc queries (indexing after the fact can be terribly slow)
- Data that frequently …

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Implementation Insights

Our team is quite experienced with the CouchDB/Cloudant technology so the original implementation went really smoothly. As usual with database implementation, the key is to design the data model and related view in the most future proof way so that you can avoid model and view changes.

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Examples of Exceptional Support

At some point, the system needed a further full rebalancing of the data on the nodes due to some issues with some highly conflicted database (which was a user error). Cloudant support helped our team to scale the reindexing by add free-of-charge 3 additional server nodes to the system for the …

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

The scope of our project was never grand enough to to observe the effect of scale. But, with whatever we worked around, it performed seamlessly.

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IBM Cloudant Replication

We were able to easily download data in any required format to perform further data operations on it.

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IBM Cloud Portfolio

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service IBM Cloud Foundry IBM Cloud Virtual Servers IBM Watson IoT

It was a sigh of relief to see everything sync along so seamlessly, made life easier for us software engineers.

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Developer Efficiency

Because IBM cloudant is able to store large amounts of data very efficiently, it’s great to work with in remote locations and downtimes. It performed quite seamlessly across platforms for our needs of data manipulation. We just felt a sense of security using it, even in precarious situations.

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Integrations

Ibm Cloudant provides great features over CouchDb that we earlier used . The ability to get data in a relational schema using the dashboard simply works great for data analysis.

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

We have saved time with ease of integration. Need to explore more pros and cons in a production environment.

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IBM Cloudant Replication

Replication processes are not user friendly. Need tools directly on Cloudant that can automate processes, have a GUI and that do not require scripts

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

We will benefit when deploying models in different geographies and extend our business models to partners. Cloudant cannot segments data for different IoT devices, which is a big limitation.

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

I did not receive these benefits. It's very stable but we have to monitor like any other instances, I think there is no service that can self monitor itself.

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IBM Cloudant Replication

The blockchain platform works with a CouchDB database. These databases, we can not make any index or improve our queries so we had a problem when we want to make any reports or query the data for analysis or reports. These replication capabilities help us to make these operations and these …

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

Lucky us we did not have any trouble so far with some disaster problem. Cloudant is very stable, the IBM cloud with other products manage the disaster recovery. It's very important that you have the services in two different regions because if you have more than one instance but only in one region …

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

The ease of use leads to fast implementation. Even with less knowledge, a consultant is able to have a fast start based on the combination of IBM Cloud Pak and integrated IBM Cloudant services.

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IBM Cloudant Replication

We use replication very often if sensor data must be replicated to other platforms, especially in the water management industry (public sector) data separation is essential (security). This requires replication of data over different databases and platforms. The replication functionality in IBM …

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

We have not tested that yet, since we are primarily active in Europe, but from that perspective the international access works pretty well.

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Implementation Insights

Implementation was easy as the menus are pretty straightforward. I was able to quickly setup replication to my CouchDB instance and see the data flowing into Cloudant in a matter of minutes. The system is reliable and I was able to connect to it easily from my Javascript source code.

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IBM Cloud Support Resource Usage

Central Documentation and Learning Hub Access to IBM and Developer communities through Stack Overflow or GitHub

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

Since it is a Database as a Service offer on IBM Cloud, you do not have to worry about basic infrastructure, provisioning and performance metrics. The user interface could improve but it is not a problem. So basically you can expect the promise of lower TCO to come to life in this case. In general …

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IBM Cloudant Replication

We have used this capability between US and Europe, to improve our overall resilience and also to ensure compliance with local standards, where it worked out well, as expected. We did not have the opportunity to replicate to CouchDB or PouchDB, but it is a nice feature to have if you are concerned …

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

We did benefit from multiple locations, although at the time we were implementing, support in China wasn't available or mature - so it was a negative in our opinion, and IBM has been improving on this space recently. The App we had was global and we could still have great infrastructure resilience …

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

Features like replication, monitoring, and ease of operation have been the key benefits. Also, the ability to work with JSON natively is also a big plus.

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IBM Cloudant Replication

Better conflict resolution. Cloudant should take away some complexity of conflict resolution from the application. Today the application has to manage most of that complexity.

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

Monitoring the execution time and optimizing based on that has surely helped.

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IBM Cloudant Replication

The replication of databases has helped in managing the environments, from development to production and all stages in between.

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

With IoT being our major focus, we have successfully been able to scale the solution.

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IBM Cloudant Time Savings

We achieved a time saving milestone due to the automation of the maintenance. Due the company policy we implemented an external application for that but Rest API gave us the ability to do that. The support is being reduced to minimal as this app is taking care of routine tasks daily.

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IBM Cloudant Replication

The replication ability, as I mentioned before, was the main reason for choosing IBM Cloudant. IBM Cloud was really quick and effective on it. We performed load and endurance tests to ensure our productive environment and every one was successful. If I would criticize something it's the unilateral …

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IBM Cloudant Global Availability

Currently the company is deploying our application in the USA but the expansion should not be a hassle as the automation helps a lot.

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Security (21)
9.8
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Concurrency (21)
9.7
97%
Performance (21)
9.7
97%
Availability (21)
8.2
82%

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I think for now it works great I think it can scale further than it already has with the outstanding company IBM is and how much it means to the world...

Orion Salazar

Student

Coursera (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)

sync data with multi master setups and offline capable clients
ibm cloud billing is still a bit strict and inflexible for some markets and credit card providers, i needed to verify my company and the process could...

Jan Johannes

CTO

Freelance (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

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Pricing

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Standard

$1

Cloud

per month per GB of storage above the included 20 GB

Standard

$75

Cloud

per month 100 reads/second ; 50 writes/second ; 5 global queries/second

Lite

Free

Cloud

20 reads/second ; 10 writes/second ; 5 global queries / second ; 1 GB of storage capacity

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

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Features

NoSQL Databases

NoSQL databases are designed to be used across large distrusted systems. They are notably much more scalable and much faster and handling very large data loads than traditional relational databases.

9.3

Avg 8.7

9.7
Performance
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How fast the database performs under data load
8.2
Availability
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Availability is the probability that the NoSQL database will be available to preform its function when called upon.
9.7
Concurrency
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Concurrency is the ability for multiple processes to access or change shared data simultaneously. The greater the number of concurrent user processes that can execute without blocking each other, the greater the concurrency of the database system.
9.8
Security
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Security features include authentication against external security mechanisms liker LDAP, Windows Active Directory, and authorization or privilege management. Some NoSQL databases also support encryption.
9.2
Scalability
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NoSQL databases are inherently more stable than relational databases and have built-in support for replication and partitioning of data to support scalability.
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Data model flexibility
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NoSQL databases do not rely on rely on tables, columns, rows, or schemas to organize and retrieve data, but use use more flexible data models to accommodate the large volume and variety of data being generated by modern applications.
9.1
Deployment model flexibility
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Can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud.

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What is IBM Cloudant?

IBM Cloudant is a distributed database that is optimized for handling heavy workloads that are typical of large, fast-growing web and mobile apps. Available as an SLA-backed, fully managed IBM Cloud service, Cloudant elastically scales throughput and storage independently. Cloudant is also available as a downloadable on-premises installation, and its API and replication protocol are compatible with an open source ecosystem that includes CouchDB, PouchDB and libraries for the most popular web and mobile development stacks.

IBM Cloudant Features

NoSQL Databases Features

Supported: Performance
Supported: Availability
Supported: Concurrency
Supported: Security
Supported: Scalability
Supported: Data model flexibility
Supported: Deployment model flexibility

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IBM Cloudant Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No
Supported Languages	English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese/Brazil, Spanish, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional

Frequently Asked Questions

Cloudant 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 considered part of a new generation of 'NoSQL' databases that don't require fixed table schemas and is challenging the dominance of traditional relational databases (including the popular MySQL).

Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, and Couchbase Server are common alternatives for IBM Cloudant.

Reviewers rate Security and Data model flexibility highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of IBM Cloudant are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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August 28, 2023

Outstanding Services and products!!!

Orion Salazar

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Coursera (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)

Score 10 out of 10

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Great product need more experience with it but love it so far!

November 09, 2022

My words on IBM cloudant

Pankaj Choudhary

Sr. Android Developer

Pataa® (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

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MongoDB, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MySQL

IBM cloudant documentation is very easy to understand and because of that the implementation is also very easy. We found some difficulties in case of aws documents implementation. Performance of the cloudant database is also high as compare to the other databases. Indexing and querying time is very low as compare to others.

August 02, 2022

Cloudant – I Use It With My Erlang Stack

Michael Adler

Full stack dev (Erlang)

Freelance (Entertainment, 1-10 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

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I like [the] ease of use of Cloudant. Redis and Fauna have time to live features so for caching and temp data that is what I use along with messaging queues.

July 17, 2022

A simple database with fully-featured GUI, "just works" scaling and replication, and straightforward pricing

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General Manager in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

Score 8 out of 10

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Azure Cosmos DB and MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB Atlas and Azure Cosmos DB are the closest competitors we found with Cloudant, especially in terms of fixed pricing and having a GUI for easy viewing and quick edits of data. Cloudant's pricing model flat out beats MongoDB Atlas' in terms of how easy it would be to predict costs. Cosmos DB is a much closer competitor, as it integrates well with Azure's stack similarly to Cloudant and the rest of the IBM Cloud stack; similar [throughout]-based pricing and replication options; and even the GUI and ease of query using SQL, which my team and I were more familiar with. Where Cloudant beats out Cosmos DB is again having a more simple pricing model (ops/sec vs Cosmos' "request units" voodoo) and being based on open-source software assuaging fears of vendor lock-in.

September 22, 2021

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Jagmeet singh

Software Developer

HCL Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)

Score 8 out of 10

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MongoDB

IBM Cloudant is great for quick deployment and configs of a database service, especially when it comes to rapid prototyping. In a research capacity, we need to spin up web services and run experiments quickly. IBM Cloudant is a fuss-free database service [that] aids in this process. Extracting data from [IBM] Cloudant can be done programmatically as well, which makes working with it much more ideal.

June 24, 2021

IBM Cloudant - Great For Mobile and Web Based Applications

Paul Daniels

Information Technology Manager

Gorgeous Smiles Dental (Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

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Amazon Web Services and MongoDB

IBM Cloudant wins in all aspects, from cost, ease of deployment, features, global availability and much more.

May 30, 2021

Great advantages and simplicity of deployment. It is as I would summarize the Cloudant service from IBM.

Jerry Ebherson Sanchez Aguado

Gestión de proyectos

INS INGENIERIA (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

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Amazon Web Services and Firebase

The gap that we wanted to cover was to deploy a self-managed CouchDB environment, which would allow us the bidirectional replication of Databases through several physical locations of the same client. IBM Cloudant was the best choice after evaluating some other platforms with similar solutions.

April 28, 2021

Scaling our data layer without headaches

Nicolas Peeters

VP of Engineering

AirFi / MI Airline (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

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Alternatives Considered

Actually, none. Since we rely on Cloudant.

March 27, 2021

I like it, but not quite sure I love it

Michael Samson

Director

Omniolytics (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

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Microsoft SQL Server

MS SQl is more specific to relational data. Overall, it is more mature with a more feature-filled interface, user access management, and tools to manage data.

November 10, 2020

I am very happy with IBM Cloudant

Jan-Willem Steur

Senior Product Design/Development Engineer

ZNAPZ BV (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

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Alternatives Considered

None, since we are a dedicated IBM Gold Business Partner as well as a respected IBM development and design partner, we stick with IBM products.

April 08, 2020

Cloudant is hands down one of the greatest development decision I've made.

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Engineer in Other

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

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MongoDB

The documentation of Cloudant alone has made it my database service of choice. With MongoDB you have to manage hardware, sharding, networking... Cloudant takes all the hassle out of storage allowing you to focus on more important tasks.

April 07, 2020

NoSQL and Cloudant are a great match, specially for starters.

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General Manager in Professional Services

Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

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Easier to use, install and configure.

January 22, 2020

Great and reliable DBaaS for IoT use cases

Verified User

Executive in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

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MongoDB and CouchDB

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.

November 11, 2019

IBM Cloudant is great!

Brandon Stephan

Data Science Program Mentor

Thinkful (Higher Education, 51-200 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

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Incentivized

Alternatives Considered

IBM Db2 on Cloud and CouchDB

In our case, it was a no-brainer since we were using IBM Cloud. In comparison to DB2 the ease of use and JSON support was the key.

September 10, 2019

IBM Cloud Bound Services Optimize the Solution

Saket Nalegaonkar

Senior Application Developer -IoT

Rexnord Corporation (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 5001-10,000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Alternatives Considered

MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas and Azure Cosmos DB

As its documentation and help are always available, it's easier to manage than any other database mentioned.

August 29, 2019

Best for mobile

Victor Pease Solano

General Manager

Supermio (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Alternatives Considered

CouchDB and Couchbase Server

Cloudant is a hosted solution so it works better for me. Also, it includes a better authentication layer than CouchDB.
As for Couchbase, it has membase but the hosted options are much more expensive.
In the SQL world, I tried several sync solutions but the configuration and flow is not as smooth as the built-in capability in Cloudant.

August 12, 2019

A Solid and Performace prune DB

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Aviation & Aerospace Company, 5001-10,000 employees

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Alternatives Considered

Redis

As I mentioned Redis was the first option for this implementation, IBM Cloudant excels the data center sync.

February 22, 2019

IBM Cloudant Experience

Shiv Shivakumar

customer service leader

ifox (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Alternatives Considered

CouchDB and Cassandra

Cloudant stacks up very well especially since it can perform multiple functions - primarily a noSQL schema-less data base but when integrated with an MDM solution (master data management) it can also do caching services efficiently and can also be used as a graph data base. Initially, when we tested against Cassandra, we found Cloudant faster when compared apples to apples for concurrent requests to the data base.

February 15, 2019

Cloudant Review

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 4 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Alternatives Considered

MongoDB

I have mainly used Cloudant as I work with IBM Cloud in my role and therefore it was easiest (and cheapest) to set up for the small scale prototypes we are building. (Which do however sometimes lead to scaled implementation)

February 14, 2019

Cloudant Rocks!

Deepak Kaul

CTO

CogAbility (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Alternatives Considered

DB2 and MongoDB

In our case it was a no-brainer since we were using IBM Cloud. In comparison to DB2 the ease of use and JSON support was the key.

February 14, 2019

Feels like floating on a Cloud

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Civic & Social Organization Company, 1-10 employees

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft SQL Server

Infinitely better in every part. Except handling SQL

February 14, 2019

IBM Cloudant DB - Scalability and Performance re-defined

Naresh Jasotani

Director - Data and Analytics Services (Presales)

Miracle Software Systems, Inc (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Alternatives Considered

MongoDB

IBM Cloudant DB is backed by CouchDB and that too hosted on IBM Cloud is the key. Concurrency and durability is the key here. In-memory capabilities are non-existent on the IBM Cloudant DB.

March 30, 2018

IBM Cloudant, Great Managed NoSQL at Significant Cost

Verified User

Analyst in Marketing

Retail Company, 51-200 employees

Score 6 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Alternatives Considered

MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server

We chose Cloudant because it was fully managed and used in the marketplace, unlike MongoDB was at the time, and it supported JSON which SQL Server 2016 didn't.

September 09, 2016

Cloudant is a great choice for DBaaS for mobile apps on multiple platforms and devices...

Wes Wilson

CTO (Chief Technical Officer)

YukonBaby (Hospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Alternatives Considered

Firebase and Amazon DynamoDB

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....

August 12, 2016

Flexible data transportation HUB without structure constraints

Romualdo Gobbo

Owner

NEWLOG Consulting Srl (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Reseller Incentivized

Alternatives Considered

CouchDB, Couchbase Server and MongoDB

All other NoSQL document-centric DB must be installed on premise on in the cloud as complicated clusters. The "as a service" formula and the open source origin were the same reasons for Cloudant choice, freeing us of all system and administration tasks!

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