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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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Popular Features
- 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
Standard
$75
Cloud
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 11, 2016
Cloudant - Build more. Sleep more.
Cloudant is a database as a service with a strong support team. The feature set is comparable to other solutions but not all are managed services, or have easy scalability, or can demonstrate production level reliability and performance.
August 01, 2016
Short and sweet
- Elasticsearch and CouchDB
We used to host CouchDB ourselves, but moved to BigCouch at first for scalability and then to Cloudant to reduce the maintenance overheads.
We use Elasticsearch alongside Cloudant these days, since _changes streams make it easy to feed data from Cloudant into Elasticsearch. Cloudant's search engine works well, but Elasticsearch makes it easier to visualise data through Kibana.
We use Elasticsearch alongside Cloudant these days, since _changes streams make it easy to feed data from Cloudant into Elasticsearch. Cloudant's search engine works well, but Elasticsearch makes it easier to visualise data through Kibana.
The technology behind Cloudant (BigCouch) is no better or worse than any of these. They are all good for different reasons. What makes Cloudant my choice against them is the hosted portion. These are all just databases that I would have to manage. Cloudant is managed for me, and still runs the queries I need.
July 20, 2016
I traded self-hosted for Cloudant
- irisCouch and mlab
Cloudant blows all of the other competitors out of the water. The robust UI, the scalability, the management console, these are all reasons why Cloudant is a superior product to any of these "competitors". Cloudant is head and shoulders above the rest. It was a pleasure to switch to their service.
July 19, 2016
Cloudant - help you manage your cloud
January 13, 2016
The best prices and easy from start to scale
I chose Cloudant because they had the best low end traffic prices while still providing room for pay as you need it scalability. I had an Amazon EC2 instance for a few years and I had to pay so much for it even though it hardly had any traffic. Being connected to IBM helped me trust them with my data.
I used Google App Engine in my first attempts to build a search solution to my data, I implemented my own Apache Lucene system and it took weeks to have something ready for test. I wasn't happy with the results (slow, problems uploading data, large index problems, cost ...). I found out that I should look for another solution that can really handle all of this and let me focus on other things. Here comes Cloudant :-)
Don't get me wrong ! Google App Engine is a great system, but it wasn't the right one for my case (at least 3 years ago).
Don't get me wrong ! Google App Engine is a great system, but it wasn't the right one for my case (at least 3 years ago).
January 04, 2016
6 months of Cloudant. So far so good ;)
January 04, 2016
Cloudant is a must have tool for mobile developers
January 04, 2016
Cloudant, great for ACRA
We looked for alternatives but the best documented and well presented tool was Cloudant for our use case.
January 04, 2016
Cloundant Just Works! The best for us: The API.
I think they are very similar. We would like to have local versions of cloudant to have a better integration.
January 04, 2016
Cloudant DBaaS review
For the first several months, we ran our projects on AWS, and in order to construct a faster connection experience on data processing, we choose DynamoDB which is one of Amazon's products as well. However, after migrating to Softlayer and being recommended by the sales representative, we start using Cloudant as our new DBaaS solution.
December 17, 2015
Cloudant can give you headstart
The control panel and maintenance was easier.