Pros and Cons of IBM Cloudant 2025

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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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IBM Cloudant - Great for your organization!

Rating: 7 out of 10

March 6, 2024

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

I have primarily used [IBM] Cloudant to facilitate academic and non-profit research.

Verified user

Employee

5 years of experience

Outstanding Services and products!!!

Rating: 10 out of 10

August 28, 2023

IncentivizedVetted Review

Software development and cloud storage from IBM

Orion Salazar

Technician - Engineering

Student

Coursera

1 year of experience

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

Rating: 10 out of 10

March 14, 2023

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

I recommend everyone who evaluated ibm cloudant in the past years since the cloudant aquisition and decided against it due to reliability and maturity of ibm cloud to revisit ...

Jan Johannes

Engineer - Engineering

CTO

Freelance

7 years of experience

My words on IBM cloudant

Rating: 10 out of 10

November 9, 2022

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

I used the ibm cloudant database to store the data, actually i want to store the data in nosql and cloudant is a no sql database, So its resoved my data storage issue. We can ...

Pankaj Choudhary

Engineer - Engineering

Sr. Android Developer

Pataa®

3 years of experience

Cloudant – I Use It With My Erlang Stack

Rating: 10 out of 10

August 2, 2022

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

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 Couchdb defaults if wanting to do so. I d...

Michael Adler

Engineer - Engineering

Full stack dev (Erlang)

Freelance

3 years of experience

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Awards

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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

9.7
Performance
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How fast the database performs under data load
8.2
Availability
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Availability is the probability that the NoSQL database will be available to preform its function when called upon.
9.8
Concurrency
(21) Ratings
Concurrency is the ability for multiple processes to access or change shared data simultaneously. The greater the number of concurrent user processes that can execute without blocking each other, the greater the concurrency of the database system.
8.5
Security
(21) Ratings
Security features include authentication against external security mechanisms liker LDAP, Windows Active Directory, and authorization or privilege management. Some NoSQL databases also support encryption.
9
Scalability
(21) Ratings
NoSQL databases are inherently more stable than relational databases and have built-in support for replication and partitioning of data to support scalability.
9.8
Data model flexibility
(21) Ratings
NoSQL databases do not rely on rely on tables, columns, rows, or schemas to organize and retrieve data, but use use more flexible data models to accommodate the large volume and variety of data being generated by modern applications.
9
Deployment model flexibility
(21) Ratings
Can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud.

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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).

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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IBM Cloudant - Great for your organization!

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 06, 2024

Verified User

Employee in Other

Education Management Company, 201-500 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

5 years of experience

Pros

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

Incentivized

August 28, 2023

OS

Orion Salazar

Student

Coursera (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

1 year of experience

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Pros

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

Incentivized

March 14, 2023

JJ

Jan Johannes

CTO

Freelance (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

7 years of experience

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Pros

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

Incentivized

November 09, 2022

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Pankaj Choudhary

Sr. Android Developer

Pataa® (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

3 years of experience

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Pros

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

Incentivized

August 02, 2022

MA

Michael Adler

Full stack dev (Erlang)

Freelance (Entertainment, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

3 years of experience

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Pros

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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Standard

$1

Standard

$75

Lite

Free

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

IBM Cloud Object Storage

Amazon DynamoDB

CouchDB

Firebase

Db2

Aerospike

Couchbase Server

Neo4j

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