IBM Cloudant vs. MongoDB

IBM Cloudant

123 Reviews and Ratings

MongoDB

437 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Cloudant	Score7.4 out of 10	N/A	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…	$1 per month per GB of storage above the included 20 GB
MongoDB	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	MongoDB is an open source document-oriented database system. It is part of the NoSQL family of database systems. Instead of storing data in tables as is done in a "classical" relational database, MongoDB stores structured data as JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas (MongoDB calls the format BSON), making the integration of data in certain types of applications easier and faster.	$0.10 million reads

Pricing

IBM Cloudant

MongoDB

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

Shared: $0
per month
Serverless: $0.10million reads
million reads
Dedicated: $57
per month

Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloudant	MongoDB
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Fully managed, global cloud database on AWS, Azure, and GCP

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	IBM Cloudant	MongoDB
Considered Both Products	IBM Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Denis Voloshko platform manager in Research & Development at Samsung Electronics (Consumer Electronics, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Cloudant Cloudant extends features of CouchDB, but you don't have to host it for yourself. IBM does this for you. Also Cloudant is free if you are under $50 per month. And there is integration with other IBM products, like dashDB (for analytics).Cloudant has CouchApps and it's a feature … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloudant I have used MongoDB prior to using Cloudant. For me Cloudant is a winner because the learning curve is not as steep as MongoDB. I also looked into using DynamoDB (AWS) but the set up was quite complicated so I gave up and tried to use Cloudant. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloudant The documentation of Cloudant alone has made it my database service of choice. With MongoDB you have to manage hardware, sharding, networking... Cloudant takes all the hassle out of storage allowing you to focus on more important tasks. Incentivized Helpful? Pankaj Choudhary Sr. Android Developer in Engineering at Pataa® (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) 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 Helpful? Jagmeet singh Software Developer in Information Technology at HCL Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) 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 Helpful? Paul Daniels Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at Gorgeous Smiles Dental (Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Cloudant IBM Cloudant wins in all aspects, from cost, ease of deployment, features, global availability and much more. Incentivized Helpful? Saket Nalegaonkar Senior Application Developer -IoT in Research & Development at Rexnord Corporation (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose IBM Cloudant As its documentation and help are always available, it's easier to manage than any other database mentioned. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Deepak Kaul CTO in Engineering at CogAbility (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) 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 Helpful? Naresh Jasotani Director - Data and Analytics Services (Presales) in Information Technology at Miracle Software Systems, Inc (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) 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 Helpful? Wes Wilson CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Engineering at YukonBaby (Hospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees) 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 Helpful? Romualdo Gobbo Owner in Corporate at NEWLOG Consulting Srl (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) 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 Helpful? Justin Saul Senior Director - SeniorAdvisor.com in Information Technology at A Place for Mom (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees) 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 Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Bryan Redeagle Developer in Engineering at Qubit Networks (Telecommunications, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Cloudant The technology behind Cloudant (BigCouch) is no better or worse than any of these. They are all good for different reasons. What makes Cloudant my choice against them is the hosted portion. These are all just databases that I would have to manage. Cloudant is managed for me, … Incentivized Helpful?	MongoDB No answer on this topic
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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Features

IBM Cloudant

MongoDB

Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of IBM Cloudant and MongoDB
Feature	IBM Cloudant 9.1 21 Ratings	MongoDB 10.0 39 Ratings
Performance	9.721 Ratings	10.039 Ratings
Availability	8.321 Ratings	10.039 Ratings
Concurrency	9.821 Ratings	10.039 Ratings
Security	8.221 Ratings	10.039 Ratings
Scalability	9.021 Ratings	10.039 Ratings
Data model flexibility	9.821 Ratings	10.039 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility	9.021 Ratings	10.038 Ratings

User Ratings
	IBM Cloudant	MongoDB
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (45 ratings)	10.0 (79 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.3 (1 ratings)	10.0 (67 ratings)
Usability	7.7 (5 ratings)	10.0 (15 ratings)
Availability	8.2 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	8.2 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (4 ratings)	9.6 (13 ratings)
Online Training	7.3 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.2 (4 ratings)	8.4 (2 ratings)
Configurability	8.5 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.6 (23 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)