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    IBM Cloudant

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/ACloudant 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…

    $1

    per month per GB of storage above the included 20 GB

    Pricing
    IBM Cloudant
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $1
    per month per GB of storage above the included 20 GB
    Standard
    $75
    per month 100 reads/second ; 50 writes/second ; 5 global queries/second
    Lite
    Free
    20 reads/second ; 10 writes/second ; 5 global queries / second ; 1 GB of storage capacity
    Standard
    Included
    per month 20 GB of storage
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloudant
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Cloudant
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    Great product need more experience with it but love it so far!
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    IBM cloudant documentation is very easy to understand and because of that the implementation is also very easy. We found some difficulties in case of aws documents implementation. Performance of the cloudant database is also high as compare to the other databases. Indexing and …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    I like [the] ease of use of Cloudant. Redis and Fauna have time to live features so for caching and temp data that is what I use along with messaging queues.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    MongoDB Atlas and Azure Cosmos DB are the closest competitors we found with Cloudant, especially in terms of fixed pricing and having a GUI for easy viewing and quick edits of data. Cloudant's pricing model flat out beats MongoDB Atlas' in terms of how easy it would be to …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    IBM Cloudant is great for quick deployment and configs of a database service, especially when it comes to rapid prototyping. In a research capacity, we need to spin up web services and run experiments quickly. IBM Cloudant is a fuss-free database service [that] aids in this …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    IBM Cloudant wins in all aspects, from cost, ease of deployment, features, global availability and much more.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    The gap that we wanted to cover was to deploy a self-managed CouchDB environment, which would allow us the bidirectional replication of Databases through several physical locations of the same client. IBM Cloudant was the best choice after evaluating some other platforms with …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    MS SQl is more specific to relational data. Overall, it is more mature with a more feature-filled interface, user access management, and tools to manage data.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    None, since we are a dedicated IBM Gold Business Partner as well as a respected IBM development and design partner, we stick with IBM products.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    The feature-set, including security, is very comparable. Overall, IBM's services added to the product are mature and stable, although product support and engineers could be a little better. Global availability is improving, and Disaster Recover Capabilities are great. Overall, …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    In our case, it was a no-brainer since we were using IBM Cloud. In comparison to DB2 the ease of use and JSON support was the key.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    As its documentation and help are always available, it's easier to manage than any other database mentioned.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    As I mentioned Redis was the first option for this implementation, IBM Cloudant excels the data center sync.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    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)
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    In our case it was a no-brainer since we were using IBM Cloud. In comparison to DB2 the ease of use and JSON support was the key.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    Infinitely better in every part. Except handling SQL
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    IBM Cloudant DB is backed by CouchDB and that too hosted on IBM Cloud is the key. Concurrency and durability is the key here. In-memory capabilities are non-existent on the IBM Cloudant DB.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    We chose Cloudant because it was fully managed and used in the marketplace, unlike MongoDB was at the time, and it supported JSON which SQL Server 2016 didn't.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    It's easier to use than Dynamo, more open than Firebase, and has better documentation that CouchDB... it might not be fair to compare Modulus, Modulus obviously suffers from some scalability issues and might not be in the same class... but its a hosted DB service we had some …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    All other NoSQL document-centric DB must be installed on premise on in the cloud as complicated clusters. The "as a service" formula and the open source origin were the same reasons for Cloudant choice, freeing us of all system and administration tasks!
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    Cloudant is a database as a service with a strong support team. The feature set is comparable to other solutions but not all are managed services, or have easy scalability, or can demonstrate production level reliability and performance.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    We used to host CouchDB ourselves, but moved to BigCouch at first for scalability and then to Cloudant to reduce the maintenance overheads.
    We use Elasticsearch alongside Cloudant these days, since _changes streams make it easy to feed data from Cloudant into Elasticsearch. …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    Cloudant blows all of the other competitors out of the water. The robust UI, the scalability, the management console, these are all reasons why Cloudant is a superior product to any of these "competitors". Cloudant is head and shoulders above the rest. It was a pleasure to …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    I've even worked with Cassandra, but I found Cloudant to be much simpler, easier, neat and efficient. Cassandra was not highly scalable but Cloudant was much efficient in it. Even the Monitoring and other scripts were pre-built which made it much time efficient for us.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudant
    I chose Cloudant because they had the best low end traffic prices while still providing room for pay as you need it scalability. I had an Amazon EC2 instance for a few years and I had to pay so much for it even though it hardly had any traffic. Being connected to IBM helped me …
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM Cloudant
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of IBM Cloudant
    Feature
    IBM Cloudant
    9.1
    21 Ratings
    Performance9.721 Ratings
    Availability8.321 Ratings
    Concurrency9.821 Ratings
    Security8.221 Ratings
    Scalability9.021 Ratings
    Data model flexibility9.821 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility9.021 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM Cloudant
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (45 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.6
    (23 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)