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Cloudant, great for ACRA
January 04, 2016

Cloudant, great for ACRA

Miguel Angel Merino Vega | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cloudant

We decided to use Cloudant to implement an error handling database using ACRA on our Android Applications. First we tested it with a new application; after our first experience we decided to use it across all developments.

We needed a repository suited for ACRA to alert on any crashes our applications could experience. We looked for information and Cloudant's name appeared.
  • Fair cost and possibility to stay on free usage program.
  • High availability. Our databases never ever experienced falls.
  • Fair documentation access. We could find tutorials across the web.
  • The learning curve could be a little tough if used for first time.
  • UI could be redundant and unintuitive in some cases (at least about 1 year ago).
  • Little integration with other tools
It never drops our error management logs.
We looked for alternatives but the best documented and well presented tool was Cloudant for our use case.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Web Services
Scenarios for the best use of Cloudant in our opinion are:
* Error handling logs.
* Spacial log database.
* Audit logs.
* Chats and social databases.
If you need a cloud repository for anything, Cloudant will be there for you. You could ease the burden of your main database and use Cloudant for these use cases.

Using Cloudant

The documentation from third parties and tutorials are great but inside, the tool could use more information in order to lighten up the learning curve.
ProsCons
Like to use
Technical support not required
Consistent
Feel confident using
Unnecessarily complex
Lots to learn
  • Creating databases
  • Integrate with external tools (services)
  • Managing users.
  • Replication. We need to get the concept first.