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I have primarily used [IBM] Cloudant to facilitate academic and non-profit research.
Starting at $1 per month per GB of storage above the included 20 GB
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What is IBM Cloudant?
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…
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- Concurrency (21)9.999%
- Performance (21)9.898%
- Security (21)9.898%
- Availability (21)8.181%
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$1
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per month per GB of storage above the included 20 GB
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$75
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per month 100 reads/second ; 50 writes/second ; 5 global queries/second
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Free
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20 reads/second ; 10 writes/second ; 5 global queries / second ; 1 GB of storage capacity
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- No setup fee
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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).
Reviewers rate Concurrency and Data model flexibility highest, with a score of 9.9.
The most common users of IBM Cloudant are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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August 28, 2023
Outstanding Services and products!!!
Great product need more experience with it but love it so far!
November 09, 2022
My words on IBM cloudant
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
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
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
IBM Cloudant review
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.
Score 9 out of 10
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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.
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
Actually, none. Since we rely on Cloudant.
March 27, 2021
I like it, but not quite sure I love it
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
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.
Easier to use, install and configure.
January 22, 2020
Great and reliable DBaaS for IoT use cases
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!
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
As its documentation and help are always available, it's easier to manage than any other database mentioned.
August 29, 2019
Best for mobile
- 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.
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
February 22, 2019
IBM Cloudant Experience
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
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!
February 14, 2019
Feels like floating on a Cloud
Infinitely better in every part. Except handling SQL
February 14, 2019
IBM Cloudant DB - Scalability and Performance re-defined
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
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...
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....
