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Starting at $1 per month per GB of storage above the included 20 GB
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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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- Concurrency (21)9.999%
- Performance (21)9.898%
- Security (21)9.898%
- Availability (21)8.181%
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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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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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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).
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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March 06, 2024
IBM Cloudant - Great for your organization!
- It’s a very powerful tool!
- I never worry about the security and safety of data.
- Data is easily retrieved for analysis.
- No suggestions for improvement
August 28, 2023
Outstanding Services and products!!!
- Stay up to date with the ever changing market
- Fast and reliable
- Easy to use
- Great customer service
- 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!
- sync data with multi master setups and offline capable clients
- schema-less document storage
- subscription and reactivity to changing data
- 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.
November 09, 2022
My words on IBM cloudant
- Filter by indexing
- Data storage
- Nosql
- In schema prepration
- Indexing to filter
- Tabular view of stored data
August 02, 2022
Cloudant – I Use It With My Erlang Stack
- Ease of use coming from Couchdb - views, indexes, auth, revisions
- Uptime has been excellent
- Replication with ease
- 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.
July 17, 2022
A simple database with fully-featured GUI, "just works" scaling and replication, and straightforward pricing
- Integration with Cloud Functions
- Included GUI for non-engineers
- Fixed, throughput/expected use-based pricing
- Better documentation
- Expensive pricing for very small projects
- Better tabular views
September 22, 2021
IBM Cloudant review
- IBM Cloudant allows rapid writes of unstructured JSON data received on a second-by-second basis.
- It also allows effective use of map-reduce to aggregate results out of collections defined within IBM Cloudant databases, allowing for millions of records to be aggregated and used effectively for analytics and reporting.
- Simple and straight forward to use and embed into the application.
- Limited support/documentation for programming languages such as Python, Perl, and R.
- Time to index large databases needs to be improved.
July 18, 2021
IBM Cloudant is the best hosted CouchDB out there
- Rapid writes
- Map reduce
- High storage capacity
- High availability
- Time to index large databases needs to be improved
- Could use more structure in terms of separating entities within a database
- Better pricing on storage sizes as database size increases exponentially
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Perfect query interface
- Great uptime
- The support team is amazing
- Great documentation
- Easy setup
- Less IBM Cloudant database management features
- The analytic reports seems off to me
- Downloading data from IBM Cloudant [I feel] can sometimes be a painful process.
May 30, 2021
Great advantages and simplicity of deployment. It is as I would summarize the Cloudant service from IBM.
- The response time for bi-directional syncs with the Couchdb engine is excellent.
- The statistics provided by Cloudant allow us to make decisions about the implementation of new features or improvements over existing ones in future versions of our software, allowing us to continuously optimize processes.
- Improvement in the documentation of some client libraries, such as the Cloudant library for Java.
April 29, 2021
Great experience with Cloudant
- Continuous delivery process
- Development easy
- Deployment easy
- Testing also done
- It is an automated process
- No issues
April 28, 2021
Scaling our data layer without headaches
- Scale your data layer without issues.
- Great support team.
- Very few operational problems
- No detailed monitoring (which views are used or not, performance metrics) on top of the basic stuff provided by CouchDB
- No playground environment to test some very large map/reduce queries (and therefore any changes in the design have to reindex the whole DB).
- Pricing is quite steep
- No integrated backup features, as you'd expect from an enterprise product
April 18, 2021
Win-Win for IBM Cloud
- Easy collaboration with IBM Cloud.
- Data easily downloadable in required format.
- Easy to use UI.
- More flexibility in displaying data stored.
- More ways of visualizing data.
- Performing data manipulation options.
March 27, 2021
I like it, but not quite sure I love it
- Easily accessible via the IBM Cloud dashboard.
- Ease of integration with IoT and analytics products.
- Decent interface
- Poor backup and recovery tools.
- Not easy to sort data.
November 22, 2020
Cloudant the best companion to IBM Blockchain Platform
- User Friendly
- High availability
- High tolerance
- Load Balancing
- Manage blob objects
- Client APIs
November 10, 2020
I am very happy with IBM Cloudant
- Watson IoT Platform--ease of use
- IBM Cloud Pak and Cloud Foundry apps--fast service connection
- Fast recovery
- Easy to merge databases
- API connectivity especially in combination with Node-Red causes too many connectivity errors / token errors.
- Sometimes it is difficult to store images (BLOB files). We always need to figure out how it was working. A better guidance/instruction on this would be appreciated
- Support has been great addressing any issues.
- The documentation is very easy and straight forward to follow.
- The many storage locations and migration capabilities allow for quick and easy access to data wherever needed.
- Not supporting temporary views can be limiting at times.
- Easy to configure and operate through the GUI.
- Seamless replication to CouchDB (like PouchDB).
- The multi-tentant option is free for low utilization (HTTP requests and storage).
- Instant database compaction on multi-tenant.
January 22, 2020
Great and reliable DBaaS for IoT use cases
- API integration and support through CouchDB standards.
- Managed Services.
- Global availability, especially in Asia.
- IBM Cloudant support is generally robust, but in some occasions we had to find solutions by ourselves.
November 11, 2019
IBM Cloudant is great!
- For us, performance and scalability is the key, and Cloudant DB backed by CouchDB is scalable and performant.
- IBM Cloudant dB is very easy to provision for sandbox, development, QA as well as production.
- Limited support for popular programming languages such as Python, Perl, and R.
- No support for SQL.
- No support for XML.
- The lack of memory capabilities.
September 10, 2019
IBM Cloud Bound Services Optimize the Solution
- It is NoSQL
- It has better performance than Mongo Atlas
- Queries are easy to use and support for views is also helpful
- Speed of searching through records can be improved.
- Some ML to predict enhancement in queries can surely help IBM and clients mutually target optimal solutions.
- Views accepting multiple parameters.
August 29, 2019
Best for mobile
- Authentication improved with the API keys
- Synchronization with https, which means secure and trustable syncs
- Scale in a transparent way
- Free start with the $50 allowance makes Cloudant the best way to start
- It would be nice to have a way to import bulk data
- There must be a better way to check usage. There are a lot of transactions not shown in the actual report
- There must be a way to reset a db -- a way to set the actual data as the base and eliminate all deleted docs
August 12, 2019
A Solid and Performace prune DB
- Cross datacenters sync
- Quick sync performance and data transfer
- Some pretty high add/update response time
- We had some issues with concurrent data saving/reading
- Due to CouchDB implementation the purge of some database field requires a copy of the desired fields to a new database
- Could find an easier way to assign access permission
February 22, 2019
IBM Cloudant Experience
- Coudant allows unlimited secondary index fields when compared to others that have certain limitations.
- Cloudant also has the ability to do bi-directional sync for replication and synchronization.
- Cloudant can run on bare metal and virtual machines.
- Cloudant can also be deployed in multi-user or private cloud environments.
- very easy to program and build apps
- Sometimes, there are no slower response times [than] when trying to pull records - I mean that slowness is in terms of milli-seconds :-)
- I wish it has in memory computing capability
- XML is still not supported by this product
February 15, 2019
Cloudant Review
- Adding and deleting documents in the UI is intuitive
- The UI is helpful for managing the data
- It is hosted on the cloud and doesn’t require much set up to get going
- The @Cloudant/Cloudand npm SDK has very limited functionality when compared to MongoDB, the Cloudant queries that can be made with JSON is good however, but it is not obvious from the start that you can do this.