Item: IBM Cloudant
Rating: 4
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloudant

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using Cloudant as part of a CEAN stack for various different prototypes that we build for different clients, we mainly use Cloudant because it is hosted in the cloud and has a free tier for when we are only experimenting.

Pros and Cons

Pros

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

Cons

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.

Alternatives Considered

MongoDB

I have mainly used Cloudant as I work with IBM Cloud in my role and therefore it was easiest (and cheapest) to set up for the small scale prototypes we are building. (Which do however sometimes lead to scaled implementation)

Likelihood to Recommend

The key for us is to see examples of this database being used at scale to show that it is a proven technology and also examples of where a NoSQL DB is best used

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Shannon Cardwell
(Vendor Representative) commented 6 years ago
Hello, This is Shannon from IBM Cloud, thanking you for your feedback and sharing your experience with IBM Cloudant. We are glad to hear the UI has been easy and intuitive for your team, especially for experimental projects. We are sorry to hear you've experienced limited functionality with the Node.js library, so if you have specific feedback, please open an issue at https://github.com/cloudant/nodejs-cloudant/issues. As we continue to improve our product roadmap, your comments are extremely valuable.

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