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What is IBM Cloudant?

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 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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Easy to deploy and monitor applications with continuos delivery with the help of IBM cloudant. Helps in auto scaling and understands the usage of ...
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You can store data in this database You can create Partitioned and Non-Partitioned Database You can store the data as a document in it as a key-v...
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What do you like best about IBM Cloudant?

I liked the simple design and ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant?

If you are creating views and adding complex conditions and try to get huge historic data, then it is slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used IBM Cloudant to store JSON requests and responses from my application. The benefit of IBM Cloudant is the ease of use when using it with IBM Cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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JSON based storage. REST interface and hosted service. Cheap & JavaScript support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant?

Ease of use. Could be more easy on the eye Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudant’s distributed database as a service (DBaaS) allows our company's fast-growing web and mobile apps to focus on building and improving their products, instead of worrying about scaling and managing databases on their own Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Querying database was pretty simple, easy and straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant?

I couldn’t dislike anything. It was fun to work with this database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were gathering user’s data and finding person’s perspective on different issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The easy way IBM provides to the end user to use all the functionality of the tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant?

There were some bugs in the web interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I have used it as main Database for an IoT project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Simple and usefull UI. It provides smart query system. User-friendly dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant?

Very less documentation available online.

Compared to search indexes, views are little difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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We used it in one of the IBM project, it was first time, and a great experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Very simple and usefull UI, providing a smart query system with a JSON similar (graphQL similar) syntax.

Fast editing from UI and abilty to create every kind of document you want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant?

To make some queries, you have to create specific indexes and this is annoying sometime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant:

Before start with this kind of database, can be usefull to good understand how it works and its best practices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creation of a noSQL database without dealing with scalability, server management/backup problems.

Free version works fine so you can move into the full development process without worries.

ABefore deploy you can move to a payment plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Dashboard to manage db and its content, is really good.

Monitoring features, to provision DB use is a valid tool to gather information on throughtput, number of reads and number of writes.

Database is classic document-oriented DB, nothing special.

Also, query system in JSON style is very intuitive and powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant?

Thinking in a classic way (SQL oriented) is very difficut to make valid queries without wasting time dealing with the JSON-like format required to retrieve information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant:

Free version can be a good choose during development startup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fast database based application development, with no needs to spent time to project database scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Cloudant allows me to access my data from mobile and web apps without having load database drivers or create CRUD APIs. It can be provisioned and up and running in minutes and modified with ease. You can very easily change the data structures and information captured. The addition over CouchDB of GeoJSON makes visualizing the data on a map very simple. It was very easy to integrate with PouchDB for local storage on mobile devices when network connectivity was unavailable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant?

Since it is NoSQL, a relational background can be a detriment. Moving from SQL queries, tables and columns to documents in a repository can be jarring. It is difficult to set up complex queries into the data without some additional training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant:

Learn about NoSQL and carefully consider your use cases. That being said, Cloudant offers a great way to experiment with the data without being tied down to a given structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudant allows me to enable data capture at the edge. Getting data from field devices right to the cloud is quick and painless, allowing instant capture and response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Cloudant?

Setup is a breeze and no drivers required to access the data. Integration with things like pouchDB for offline storage and sync makes creating offline ready web apps very simple. GeoJSON is a great addition over couchDB, since it has quick default views of data points on a map. Also, love the fact that I can modify the data fields(attributes) in documents without the need to modigy tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant?

Views and queries can be a bit complex to set up originally. There is a learning curve when coming from a relational db background. Lack of good code, index, query examples on the IBM site. CouchDB is a great resource when starting out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant:

Get familiar with NoSQL databases and REST security. It makes the transition very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simple data capture from web apps with quick deployment. It makes setting up demo apps and PoT efforts a snap with no time lost in provisioning systems or contacting engineering groups to stand up a new database. No DB knowledge required to start creating records (documents) in a data store. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Cloudant?

The simplicity of getting started with the database, it was one of the most easy to setup cloud database env Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant?

The documentation, sometimes you are lost between the line of the docs for something you may want to do but can not directly find it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Consider replacing traditional DBs with Cloud Based DBs that IBM provides Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Supply chain monitoring and an IOT data dump Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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