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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    PostgreSQL

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/APostgreSQL (alternately Postgres) is a free and open source object-relational database system boasting over 30 years of active development, reliability, feature robustness, and performance. It supports SQL and is designed to support various workloads flexibly.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM CloudantPostgreSQL
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM CloudantPostgreSQL
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM CloudantPostgreSQL
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    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
    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
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
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    Key User Insights
    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 CloudantPostgreSQL
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of IBM Cloudant and PostgreSQL
    Feature
    IBM Cloudant
    9.1
    21 Ratings
    PostgreSQL
    -
    Ratings
    Performance9.721 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability8.321 Ratings00 Ratings
    Concurrency9.821 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security8.221 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability9.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data model flexibility9.821 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility9.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM CloudantPostgreSQL
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (45 ratings)
    9.1
    (54 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    9.3
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.6
    (23 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)