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 …
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Starting at $1 per month per GB of storage above the included 20 GB
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2022
Popular Features
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
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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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
Features Scorecard
NoSQL Databases
8.9
89%
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 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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August 02, 2022
Cloudant – I Use It With My Erlang Stack
- Uptime has been great. Only 1 time it went down and I mean AWS has not been perfect all the time.
- Scalability is amazing.
- Ease of use again, can jump right in from Couchdb.
July 17, 2022
A simple database with fully-featured GUI, "just works" scaling and replication, and straightforward pricing
- Eliminated the need to export data for non-engineers
- Reduced "time to answers" by giving direct access to the database
- Delegate analytics and edit tasks
September 22, 2021
IBM Cloudant review
- This database has very good ROI with [a] small size of data as pricing on storage sizes as database size increases exponentially.
August 27, 2021
IBM Cloudant - Great for your organization!
- Offers excellent ROI
- Leads to efficient processes regarding sharing data with other researchers
July 18, 2021
IBM Cloudant is the best hosted CouchDB out there
- Reduced database design time by as much as 40%
- Reduced aggregated query run time over terabytes of data by ~30%
- Reduced write time for a million records in a second by 10%
- IBM Cloudant is very secure and we never have to worry about losing data/unauthorized access
- It is one of the best data backup system and works well
- Global availability means it is easy to connect to the nearest data center and this reduces load time which is great.
May 30, 2021
Great advantages and simplicity of deployment. It is as I would summarize the Cloudant service from IBM.
- Since we have used Cloudant, we have increased our profit by 30% in this line of business, since the time and resources we invested in maintaining our own database implementation as a central repository has been used to serve a greater number of clients. Our projection is a growth of 35% thanks to the fact that we have Cloudant as the strategic platform for this growth.
April 29, 2021
Great experience with Cloudant
- Positive
April 28, 2021
Scaling our data layer without headaches
- Ability to quickly scale and launch a new tenant on the system
April 18, 2021
Win-Win for IBM Cloud
- It has been useful instead of looking for alternatives like Apache.
- The free version was good enough for starting.
- The purchase options were cheaper than market.
March 27, 2021
I like it, but not quite sure I love it
- Too early to say, still at MVP.
November 22, 2020
Cloudant the best companion to IBM Blockchain Platform
- Its a cheap database compared with other similar solutions
- High performance for the price
- Useful
November 10, 2020
I am very happy with IBM Cloudant
- Positive: past deployment and fast go-to-market (production)
- Negative: sometimes not all business requirements are covered or it is unknown how to implement them, but that is probably caused by lack of Cloudant knowledge
January 22, 2020
Great and reliable DBaaS for IoT use cases
- Almost no technical people are needed in order to maintain.
- Competitive cost structure.
November 11, 2019
IBM Cloudant is great!
- Strong query interface, IBM Cloudant provides a very robust and flexible query interface allowing us to write simple as well as complex queries
- Performance, for the most part we have been happy with the performance of the Cloudant database
September 10, 2019
IBM Cloud Bound Services Optimize the Solution
- Probably Positive.
- It has surely reduced the time it takes to handle data from Node-Red.
- Rather than going for a third party DB hosted by some other provider, it's easier to do it all within the IBM cloud.
August 29, 2019
Best for mobile
- Positive: you can start your app at 0$ cost. After that, you can combine Cloud data with local Couchdb servers for heavy operations as export to RDBMS
- Negative: moving from lite to standard pricing plan requires to restart your app
August 12, 2019
A Solid and Performace prune DB
- This implementation reduces the retry on the cached data so it's a [decrease] in traffic and CPU
- The Cloudant api is very flexible so we could automate all maintenance
- Not expensive for small usage
February 22, 2019
IBM Cloudant Experience
- savings in initial hardware cost as well cost of server build to be ready to load data base
- Cloudant was the first truly cloud based database solution implemented by in our organization and hence lots of effort went in to make it a success so that it can be a role model for cloud adoption in the organization
February 14, 2019
Cloudant Rocks!
- Time and savings with ease of operation
- Good developer support, the support documentation is very well laid out.
February 14, 2019
Feels like floating on a Cloud
- Makes pushing apps into deployment easier
- Monitoring is a plus
February 14, 2019
IBM Cloudant DB - Scalability and Performance re-defined
- Saving in-terms of cost of procuring and maintaining hardware, which will be realized over the next 5 years.
- Positive ROI in terms of the number of FTEs involved in maintaining our databases; our DBAs can now focus on other important and business critical applications.
- Best ROI in terms of our organization's vision - they are no longer anxious / nervous to move to the cloud. We are already on the CLOUD.
March 30, 2018
IBM Cloudant, Great Managed NoSQL at Significant Cost
- Cloudant allowed us to implement a project faster due to it being fully managed and basically a plug-and-play type data store.
- Being fully managed meant that we spent a fair bit of time on the phone yelling at IBM Support because they didn't know jack about how to solve the issues we ran into/
- Overall Cloudant worked for us because the project timeline and budget allowed for more money to be spent on services rather than hardware (OpEx vs CapEx).