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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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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.

9.2
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 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 9.8.

The most common users of IBM Cloudant are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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IBM Cloudant - Great for your organization!

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 06, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloudant
5 years of experience
  • It’s a very powerful tool!
  • I never worry about the security and safety of data.
  • Data is easily retrieved for analysis.
Cons
  • No suggestions for improvement

Outstanding Services and products!!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 28, 2023
  • Stay up to date with the ever changing market
  • Fast and reliable
  • Easy to use
  • Great customer service
Cons
  • I think for now it works great I think it can scale further than it already has with the outstanding company IBM is and how much it means to the world as other things with time it should grow!

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

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 14, 2023
JJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloudant
7 years of experience
  • sync data with multi master setups and offline capable clients
  • schema-less document storage
  • subscription and reactivity to changing data
Cons
  • ibm cloud billing is still a bit strict and inflexible for some markets and credit card providers, i needed to verify my company and the process could have been nicer.

My words on IBM cloudant

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 09, 2022
PC
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloudant
3 years of experience
  • Filter by indexing
  • Data storage
  • Nosql
Cons
  • In schema prepration
  • Indexing to filter
  • Tabular view of stored data

Cloudant – I Use It With My Erlang Stack

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 02, 2022
MA
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloudant
3 years of experience
  • Ease of use coming from Couchdb - views, indexes, auth, revisions
  • Uptime has been excellent
  • Replication with ease
Cons
  • Better branding - People not used to using IBM services don’t know that Cloudant [was] built around Couchdb.
  • Documentation can be done a bit more organized (some are very old) and do share more of [the] fallback features that Couchdb supplies and what is offered too. I have to sometimes look deep to find out things like fallback auth to use Couchdb auth users for example. Simple stuff.
  • I honestly over time have really no other issues and they aren’t anything extensive since I know Couchdb well.
  • I [have] been happy so far.
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