Cloudant – I Use It With My Erlang Stack
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 …
IBM Cloudant
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2022
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View all 7 features- Security (18)9.292%
- Availability (18)9.292%
- Performance (18)8.787%
- Concurrency (18)8.686%
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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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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
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NoSQL Databases
8.9
89%
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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 powerful 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 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. Clo...
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IBM Cloudant Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| 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 Scalability highest, with a score of 9.7.
The most common users of IBM Cloudant are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Computer Software industry.
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February 22, 2019
IBM Cloudant Experience
Yes, we have achieved time/agility to deploy and scale up with fast query response times. Also, in order to process multiple concurrent requests, we have done an integration between the master data management solution (MDM) and Cloudant so that Cloudant also acts as a cache for faster response. The biggest benefit was the saving in hardware investment + cost of server build to get this data base up and running.
February 15, 2019
Cloudant Review
It requires very little set up and has therefore greatly assisted us with our work in building prototypes quickly as we don’t have to do all the lower level management of the DB
February 14, 2019
Cloudant Rocks!
Features like replication, monitoring and ease of operation have been the key benefits. Also the ability with work with JSON natively is also a big plus.
February 14, 2019
Feels like floating on a Cloud
Monitoring and logging were one of the unexpected things that Cloudant provided. It was a nice surprise. As I also emphasized it is extremely easy to set up and go which makes developing prototypes really easy. Impactful in saving time and money
February 14, 2019
IBM Cloudant DB - Scalability and Performance re-defined
Oh yes, we have always struggled on the scalability of our existing databases in our ecosystem, the cost of hardware procurement and maintenance, number of technicians involved in managing those legacy databases are really something we were looking to move away from.
IBM Cloudant DB provides not only monitoring and scaling options, but also standing up and operationalizing the sandboxes for a lot of POCs are managed seamlessly, without impacting other applications.
IBM Cloudant DB provides not only monitoring and scaling options, but also standing up and operationalizing the sandboxes for a lot of POCs are managed seamlessly, without impacting other applications.
We have achieved huge time savings! The only action we do is verify that the system is up and running in normal fashion, because we no longer have to perform all the tasks covered by the "as-a-service" formula.
August 11, 2016
Cloudant - Build more. Sleep more.
Cloudant allows me to sleep at night. I never worry about maintenance, operations, scaling, etc. I can easily see and be notified of potential problems -- though we never had one. On the rare occasion there was a service interruption, Cloudant was on top of it before I could notify them. There is very little time required by my team to think about database operations, which gives us more time to build revenue making features.
August 03, 2016
Cloudant: the best choice for my company
Yes, we had a lot of time savings since we started using Cloudant. The impact was about a 15%-19% time savings. Our team now can focus more time on the things that really matter for our company, and of course improve our services and products and make then better and better every day.
August 01, 2016
Short and sweet
Definitely so, moving to the fully-managed service allowed us to focus on developing our core platform without having the engineers distracted by database maintenance. Also, Cloudant team's response times are great, which means that that in the rare occasions where we suffer from a failure, recovery times are short.
July 19, 2016
Cloudant - help you manage your cloud
Though, I agree cloudant has inbuilt methods to easily monitor, operate and scale, there is a little disadvantage with Cloudant in that there are no tools like MySQL which makes the tasks easier or neither it is not free of cost. Researching that took us a while which could have saved time for us. But we saved a lot of time involved in monitoring the scripts.
January 13, 2016
The best prices and easy from start to scale
Yes I have experienced time savings. I used to spend way too much time managing my own servers and dealing with failed drives and lost data. I would much rather have someone else do it who specializes in the area and can take problems in stride and resolve them without getting in the way of the things I want to do.
January 04, 2016
6 months of Cloudant. So far so good ;)
It indeed saves time. Configured a couple of DB in a minute. There was only one occasion when data stopped writing to DB and I did not set some kind of notification for this.
January 04, 2016
Cloudant, great for ACRA
Yes. In fact Cloudant did all for us. We stored the data and never have to monitor it. The reports are built practically alone. If another approach were used, we needed to do all for ourselves expending more time and resources to achieve the same results. This lately translates into benefits for the company.
January 04, 2016
Cloudant DBaaS review
Cloudant does provide the services which can reduce lots of work loads on database management. Through the API of it, we can integrate into our self-developed infrastructure management system. Compared to deploying our own SQL servers, at least there is no need to make the hardware and system health check regularly.
December 17, 2015
Cloudant can give you headstart
Yes, setting up and maintenance was all done by Cloudant. The control panel allows for easy monitoring of what is going on.