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IBM Cloudant

Overview

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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Recent Reviews

Win-Win for IBM Cloud

9 out of 10
April 18, 2021
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Popular Features

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  • Concurrency (21)
    9.9
    99%
  • Performance (21)
    9.8
    98%
  • Security (21)
    9.8
    98%
  • Availability (21)
    8.1
    81%

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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
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.ibm.com/cloud/cloudant/pric…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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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.

9.4
Avg 8.8
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Product Details

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

IBM Cloudant Video

database management with Cloudant

IBM Cloudant Competitors

IBM Cloudant Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish, 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 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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Reviews and Ratings

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August 28, 2023

Outstanding Services and products!!!

Orion Salazar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Orion Salazar
Student
Coursera (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It’s really great for mobile developers and the development they do and also web based development as well! It makes it easier to get the job done and that’s convenient for time but not only that it’s great for the continued growth all around as businesses strive to be better for the consumer each and every day!
March 14, 2023

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

Jan Johannes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jan Johannes
CTO
Freelance (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
perfect for schema-less document needs especially if accessing via http anyways, irreplaceable as soon as multi master or local first (eg. latency critical) clients come into the mix!

high performance/ latency critical joins that cannot be implemented with denormalized data are better done in other systems.

cloudant search does not provide all features of elastic search and can get a bit pricey for many concurrent global quieries that dont work partitioned.
November 09, 2022

My words on IBM cloudant

Pankaj Choudhary | TrustRadius Reviewer
Pankaj Choudhary
Sr. Android Developer
Pataa® (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's very easy to implement the IBM cloud and database in the rest API we can also view the data in the form of table. We can also create the query on the IBM cloudant panel to use in our program that provide a very easy way to developer software in iffective time frame.
July 17, 2022

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

Verified User
General Manager in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
September 22, 2021

IBM Cloudant review

Jagmeet singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jagmeet singh
Software Developer
HCL Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloudant is useful when some applications require [a] powerful NoSQL database where performance analytics is the key to business. It will be less appropriate where storage sizes of [an] application [are] huge as pricing on storage sizes as database size increases exponentially.
July 18, 2021

IBM Cloudant is the best hosted CouchDB out there

Ramindu Deshapriya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ramindu Deshapriya
Lead Consultant - Technology
Virtusa (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloudant is the best implementation of CouchDB, or any NoSQL database that you could use if you are looking for a database that can handle extremely rapid writes to a database without having to worry about transactional integrity. IBM Cloudant also abstracts out CouchDB's replication/multi-node requirements and ensures high availability on its own. It also allows map-reduce based indexing which will allow massive databases to be aggregated and queried very quickly. It should not be used in cases where you require structured data which is organized according to a schema, or if you want to maintain ACID database properties.
June 24, 2021

IBM Cloudant - Great For Mobile and Web Based Applications

PD
Paul Daniels
Information Technology Manager
Gorgeous Smiles Dental (Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
A good scenario where IBM Cloudant is irresistible is when you are an international company and have web and mobile-based applications - accessing data will be easy thanks to the global availability of IBM Cloudant. It will be easy to connect to the closest data center.
Another scenario is where you have mobile and web-based apps and/or want to have a data backup system - IBM Cloudant works perfectly well.
May 30, 2021

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

Jerry Ebherson Sanchez Aguado | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jerry Ebherson Sanchez Aguado
Gestión de proyectos
INS INGENIERIA (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The deployment for bidirectional replications in the database through Cloudant is the scenario that we have used the most and with which we are very satisfied.
April 28, 2021

Scaling our data layer without headaches

Nicolas Peeters | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nicolas Peeters
VP of Engineering
AirFi / MI Airline (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is less suited for reporting. Reporting is an issue. This is a general issue with document-based NoSQL systems, but there's no real solution provided by IBM for this (apart from "dump to a SQL database"). It's very well suited for a document-based system and we of course rely very much on the replication capabilities.
November 22, 2020

Cloudant the best companion to IBM Blockchain Platform

CM
Cesar Martinez
Software Engineer
Banco Guayaquil (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you want to replicate other databases and make them available for reports or for APIs to query data. Without these solutions, all development will not work. Its a very good product with great customer support from IBM, in many ways help us improve the performance of the queries that our application use
November 10, 2020

I am very happy with IBM Cloudant

Jan-Willem Steur | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jan-Willem Steur
Senior Product Design/Development Engineer
ZNAPZ BV (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
When you need fast and easy use of Cloudant, we recommend to use IBM Cloudant as a simple GUI-based data storage tool. IBM Cloudant can do much more and has an impressive backbone. Of cause it isn't comparable with a database like DB2, but is enough for storage of, for instance, IOT data.
April 08, 2020

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

Verified User
Engineer in Other
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Do you need to provide easy access to data directly to end users?
Do you need remote storage with easy to follow documentation?
Do you already use NoSQL in any other projects?
Is JSON the data you wish to be able to storage and index easily?
Do you need to be able to easily replicate your database stores?
Do you need to share your database with multiple users?
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
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
November 11, 2019

IBM Cloudant is great!

Brandon Stephan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Brandon Stephan
Data Science Program Mentor
Thinkful (Higher Education, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We use it across the board. We are a cloud-based solution provider and our products are deployed on the IBM cloud and we used IBM Cloudant as a database (persistent) storage. We use it across the board to store anything that needs persistent storage, from text to images and document attachments as well.
September 10, 2019

IBM Cloud Bound Services Optimize the Solution

Saket Nalegaonkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
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
Likelihood to Recommend
It is currently being used by our e-commerce team, which spans all our digital solutions. Used along with the node-red instance hosted within the IBM environment. With multiple such instances supporting multiple Cloudant databases for all storage/database facilities, it is very easy to manage.
August 29, 2019

Best for mobile

Victor Pease Solano | TrustRadius Reviewer
Victor Pease Solano
General Manager
Supermio (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudant is best suited for offline first apps, with a library on the client -- you can have a completely synced environment in no time with data isolation per user and everything.

It is not so good for report apps or to handle too much structured data, because the Cloudant query can turn in something tricky, specially if your data model gets complicated.
February 22, 2019

IBM Cloudant Experience

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Shiv Shivakumar
customer service leader
ifox (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudant is best suited for highly scalable environments as it comes with data base as a service. It has more flexibility than some of the other noSQL databases and the response time to pull data is much faster than others. It is easy to stage and get started for both test and production environment. It also has graph data base capability.
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
Likelihood to Recommend
The key for us is to see examples of this database being used at scale to show that it is a proven technology and also examples of where a NoSQL DB is best used
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