IBM Cloudant

IBM Cloudant is a distributed database that is optimized for handling heavy workloads that are typical of large, fast-growing web and mobile apps. Available as an SLA-backed, fully managed IBM Cloud service, Cloudant elastically scales throughput and storage independently. Cloudant is also available as a downloadable on-premises installation, and its API and powerful replication protocol are compatible with an open source ecosystem that includes CouchDB, PouchDB and libraries for the most popular web and mobile development stacks.

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7.6/10 (Expert Score) ★★★★★
Product is rated as #51 in category Data Replication Software
Ease of use
8.6
Support
7.1
Ease of Setup
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Fully Managed — IBM Cloud service provides a fully managed, distributed JSON document database. Instantly deploy an instance, create databases, and independently scale throughput capacity and data storage to meet your application requirements. IBM expertise takes away the pain of hardware and software provisioning, patching and upgrades, while offering a 99.95 percent SLA.

Secure — Cloudant is ISO27001, SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and HIPAA ready. All data is encrypted over the wire and at rest with optional user-defined key management through IBM Key Protect. Cloudant also offers an EU-managed service, that ensures all data and operations are handled solely by EU citizens.

Global Availability — Available in all IBM Cloud regions and 55+ data centers across the world, Cloudant can easily be set up for disaster recovery between continents or scaling an app for a global release through a horizontal scaling architecture that can handle millions of users and terabytes of data to grow seamlessly alongside your business. All Cloudant instances are deployed on clusters that span availability zones in regions that support them, for added durability at no extra cost.

Data flexibility — Leverage a flexible JSON schema and powerful API that is compatible with Apache CouchDB™, enabling you to access an abundance of language libraries and tools to rapidly build new applications and features.

Durable replication — Move application data closer to all the places it needs to be — for uninterrupted data access, offline or on. Cloudant helps teams build Progressive Web Apps, develop with an offline-first architecture or manipulate data on edge devices.

Powerful serverless API — Enhance your applications with built-in key-value, MapReduce, full-text search and geospatial querying that go beyond simple bounding boxes. Stream the changes feed for seamless integration with event-driven applications and IBM Cloud functions.

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IBM Cloudant Reviews

Joshua B.

Advanced user of IBM Cloudant
★★★★★
Cloudant for a distributed offline first app.

What do you like best?

Setting up databases in IBM Cloudant is fast and easy.

Most of the CouchDB API is implemented.

Cloudant is likely the best CouchDB replacement on the market. It is compatible with PouchDB and other CouchDB clients.

What do you dislike?

The documentation could be more detailed. Some features are not described at all.

Functions pertaining local couch documents are not available. For example, you cant list local documents.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Make sure to optimize your document structures to save on cost. While the Cloudant service is excellent in itself it's also pricey and therefore needs planning to assure that no unnecessary costs are generated.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We used IBM Cloudant for a distributed offline first app. It was important to us that we had a master-master database that enabled us to have write access even when no internet connection was available.

Review source: G2.com

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