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What is IBM Cloudant?
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…
IBM Cloudant - Great for your organization!
Outstanding Services and products!!!
Happily moved back to cloudant after hosting my own couchdb for a few years.
My words on IBM cloudant
Cloudant – I Use It With My Erlang Stack
A simple database with fully-featured GUI, "just works" scaling and replication, and straightforward pricing
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IBM Cloudant is the best hosted CouchDB out there
IBM Cloudant - Great For Mobile and Web Based Applications
Great advantages and simplicity of deployment. It is as I would summarize the Cloudant service from IBM.
Great experience with Cloudant
Scaling our data layer without headaches
Win-Win for IBM Cloud
I like it, but not quite sure I love it
Cloudant the best companion to IBM Blockchain Platform
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- Performance (21)9.898%
- Security (21)9.797%
- Availability (21)8.181%
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NoSQL Databases
NoSQL databases are designed to be used across large distrusted systems. They are notably much more scalable and much faster and handling very large data loads than traditional relational databases.
- 9.8Performance(21) Ratings
How fast the database performs under data load
- 8.1Availability(21) Ratings
Availability is the probability that the NoSQL database will be available to preform its function when called upon.
- 9.9Concurrency(21) Ratings
Concurrency is the ability for multiple processes to access or change shared data simultaneously. The greater the number of concurrent user processes that can execute without blocking each other, the greater the concurrency of the database system.
- 9.7Security(21) Ratings
Security features include authentication against external security mechanisms liker LDAP, Windows Active Directory, and authorization or privilege management. Some NoSQL databases also support encryption.
- 9Scalability(21) Ratings
NoSQL databases are inherently more stable than relational databases and have built-in support for replication and partitioning of data to support scalability.
- 9.9Data model flexibility(21) Ratings
NoSQL databases do not rely on rely on tables, columns, rows, or schemas to organize and retrieve data, but use use more flexible data models to accommodate the large volume and variety of data being generated by modern applications.
- 9Deployment model flexibility(21) Ratings
Can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud.
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IBM Cloudant Features
NoSQL Databases Features
- Supported: Performance
- Supported: Availability
- Supported: Concurrency
- Supported: Security
- Supported: Scalability
- Supported: Data model flexibility
- Supported: Deployment model flexibility
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IBM Cloudant Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Languages | English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese/Brazil, Spanish, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional |
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Efficient Data Retrieval: Users have highlighted the ease of retrieving data for analysis as a key benefit, with many stating its importance. Reliable and Speedy Updates: Customers value staying updated with market changes due to the tool's reliability and speed, as mentioned by multiple reviewers. Excellent Customer Service: The efficient response time for bi-directional syncs and valuable statistics provided by Cloudant are appreciated by users in terms of decision-making. Smooth Integration Process: Users find the integration with Cloud Functions and a GUI designed for non-engineers positively mentioned, indicating its user-friendly approach. Advanced Data Storage Capabilities: Users praise the tool's indexing and data storage capabilities, emphasizing their satisfaction with this aspect of the service.
Billing Process: Users have found IBM Cloud Billing to be stringent and inflexible for certain markets and credit card providers, requiring additional company verification which could have been a smoother process. Some users have highlighted frustrations with the lengthy verification steps impacting their overall experience. Documentation Organization: Reviewers have mentioned that the documentation could benefit from better organization and updates, particularly in providing clearer details on features like fallback authentication. They also note a lack of detailed monitoring information, leading to confusion during usage. Programming Language Support: Some users have expressed concerns about limitations in support for languages such as Python, Perl, and R, indicating a need for improvement in this area. This limitation has hindered the seamless integration of different programming languages into the platform.
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- 7.3Likelihood to Renew1 rating
- 8.2Availability1 rating
- 8.2Performance1 rating
- 7.7Usability5 ratings
- 8.6Support Rating4 ratings
- 7.3Online Training2 ratings
- 8.2Implementation Rating4 ratings
- 8.5Configurability3 ratings
- 9.6Product Scalability23 ratings
- 9.1Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 8.2IBM Cloudant Usability2 ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 45)IBM Cloudant - Great for your organization!
- It’s a very powerful tool!
- I never worry about the security and safety of data.
- Data is easily retrieved for analysis.
- No suggestions for improvement
Outstanding Services and products!!!
- Stay up to date with the ever changing market
- Fast and reliable
- Easy to use
- Great customer service
- I think for now it works great I think it can scale further than it already has with the outstanding company IBM is and how much it means to the world as other things with time it should grow!
- sync data with multi master setups and offline capable clients
- schema-less document storage
- subscription and reactivity to changing data
- ibm cloud billing is still a bit strict and inflexible for some markets and credit card providers, i needed to verify my company and the process could have been nicer.
high performance/ latency critical joins that cannot be implemented with denormalized data are better done in other systems.
cloudant search does not provide all features of elastic search and can get a bit pricey for many concurrent global quieries that dont work partitioned.
My words on IBM cloudant
- Filter by indexing
- Data storage
- Nosql
- In schema prepration
- Indexing to filter
- Tabular view of stored data
Cloudant – I Use It With My Erlang Stack
- Ease of use coming from Couchdb - views, indexes, auth, revisions
- Uptime has been excellent
- Replication with ease
- Better branding - People not used to using IBM services don’t know that Cloudant [was] built around Couchdb.
- Documentation can be done a bit more organized (some are very old) and do share more of [the] fallback features that Couchdb supplies and what is offered too. I have to sometimes look deep to find out things like fallback auth to use Couchdb auth users for example. Simple stuff.
- I honestly over time have really no other issues and they aren’t anything extensive since I know Couchdb well.
- I [have] been happy so far.
A simple database with fully-featured GUI, "just works" scaling and replication, and straightforward pricing
- Integration with Cloud Functions
- Included GUI for non-engineers
- Fixed, throughput/expected use-based pricing
- Better documentation
- Expensive pricing for very small projects
- Better tabular views
IBM Cloudant review
- IBM Cloudant allows rapid writes of unstructured JSON data received on a second-by-second basis.
- It also allows effective use of map-reduce to aggregate results out of collections defined within IBM Cloudant databases, allowing for millions of records to be aggregated and used effectively for analytics and reporting.
- Simple and straight forward to use and embed into the application.
- Limited support/documentation for programming languages such as Python, Perl, and R.
- Time to index large databases needs to be improved.
IBM Cloudant is the best hosted CouchDB out there
- Rapid writes
- Map reduce
- High storage capacity
- High availability
- Time to index large databases needs to be improved
- Could use more structure in terms of separating entities within a database
- Better pricing on storage sizes as database size increases exponentially
- Perfect query interface
- Great uptime
- The support team is amazing
- Great documentation
- Easy setup
- Less IBM Cloudant database management features
- The analytic reports seems off to me
- Downloading data from IBM Cloudant [I feel] can sometimes be a painful process.
Another scenario is where you have mobile and web-based apps and/or want to have a data backup system - IBM Cloudant works perfectly well.
Great advantages and simplicity of deployment. It is as I would summarize the Cloudant service from IBM.
- The response time for bi-directional syncs with the Couchdb engine is excellent.
- The statistics provided by Cloudant allow us to make decisions about the implementation of new features or improvements over existing ones in future versions of our software, allowing us to continuously optimize processes.
- Improvement in the documentation of some client libraries, such as the Cloudant library for Java.
Great experience with Cloudant
- Continuous delivery process
- Development easy
- Deployment easy
- Testing also done
- It is an automated process
- No issues
Scaling our data layer without headaches
- Scale your data layer without issues.
- Great support team.
- Very few operational problems
- No detailed monitoring (which views are used or not, performance metrics) on top of the basic stuff provided by CouchDB
- No playground environment to test some very large map/reduce queries (and therefore any changes in the design have to reindex the whole DB).
- Pricing is quite steep
- No integrated backup features, as you'd expect from an enterprise product
Win-Win for IBM Cloud
- Easy collaboration with IBM Cloud.
- Data easily downloadable in required format.
- Easy to use UI.
- More flexibility in displaying data stored.
- More ways of visualizing data.
- Performing data manipulation options.
I like it, but not quite sure I love it
- Easily accessible via the IBM Cloud dashboard.
- Ease of integration with IoT and analytics products.
- Decent interface
- Poor backup and recovery tools.
- Not easy to sort data.
Cloudant the best companion to IBM Blockchain Platform
- User Friendly
- High availability
- High tolerance
- Load Balancing
- Manage blob objects
- Client APIs
I am very happy with IBM Cloudant
- Watson IoT Platform--ease of use
- IBM Cloud Pak and Cloud Foundry apps--fast service connection
- Fast recovery
- Easy to merge databases
- API connectivity especially in combination with Node-Red causes too many connectivity errors / token errors.
- Sometimes it is difficult to store images (BLOB files). We always need to figure out how it was working. A better guidance/instruction on this would be appreciated
- Support has been great addressing any issues.
- The documentation is very easy and straight forward to follow.
- The many storage locations and migration capabilities allow for quick and easy access to data wherever needed.
- Not supporting temporary views can be limiting at times.
Do you need remote storage with easy to follow documentation?
Do you already use NoSQL in any other projects?
Is JSON the data you wish to be able to storage and index easily?
Do you need to be able to easily replicate your database stores?
Do you need to share your database with multiple users?
- Easy to configure and operate through the GUI.
- Seamless replication to CouchDB (like PouchDB).
- The multi-tentant option is free for low utilization (HTTP requests and storage).
- Instant database compaction on multi-tenant.
Great and reliable DBaaS for IoT use cases
- API integration and support through CouchDB standards.
- Managed Services.
- Global availability, especially in Asia.
- IBM Cloudant support is generally robust, but in some occasions we had to find solutions by ourselves.
IBM Cloudant is great!
- For us, performance and scalability is the key, and Cloudant DB backed by CouchDB is scalable and performant.
- IBM Cloudant dB is very easy to provision for sandbox, development, QA as well as production.
- Limited support for popular programming languages such as Python, Perl, and R.
- No support for SQL.
- No support for XML.
- The lack of memory capabilities.
IBM Cloud Bound Services Optimize the Solution
- It is NoSQL
- It has better performance than Mongo Atlas
- Queries are easy to use and support for views is also helpful
- Speed of searching through records can be improved.
- Some ML to predict enhancement in queries can surely help IBM and clients mutually target optimal solutions.
- Views accepting multiple parameters.
Best for mobile
This is the best way to use CouchDB, because Cloudant adds the authorization layer required for a real live app, and also the infinite capacity with the flexibility to grow from $0 to whatever is required according to the amount of users you need to support.
Also, we have now using Cloudant as the main database for data capture apps and the source for all our catalogs in order to free resources from our rdbms system.
Finally, considering CouchDB is part of Bluemix, you will have the chance to grow, adding on more services for your app.
- Authentication improved with the API keys
- Synchronization with https, which means secure and trustable syncs
- Scale in a transparent way
- Free start with the $50 allowance makes Cloudant the best way to start
- It would be nice to have a way to import bulk data
- There must be a better way to check usage. There are a lot of transactions not shown in the actual report
- There must be a way to reset a db -- a way to set the actual data as the base and eliminate all deleted docs
It is not so good for report apps or to handle too much structured data, because the Cloudant query can turn in something tricky, specially if your data model gets complicated.
A Solid and Performace prune DB
- Cross datacenters sync
- Quick sync performance and data transfer
- Some pretty high add/update response time
- We had some issues with concurrent data saving/reading
- Due to CouchDB implementation the purge of some database field requires a copy of the desired fields to a new database
- Could find an easier way to assign access permission
IBM Cloudant Experience
- Coudant allows unlimited secondary index fields when compared to others that have certain limitations.
- Cloudant also has the ability to do bi-directional sync for replication and synchronization.
- Cloudant can run on bare metal and virtual machines.
- Cloudant can also be deployed in multi-user or private cloud environments.
- very easy to program and build apps
- Sometimes, there are no slower response times [than] when trying to pull records - I mean that slowness is in terms of milli-seconds :-)
- I wish it has in memory computing capability
- XML is still not supported by this product
Cloudant Review
- Adding and deleting documents in the UI is intuitive
- The UI is helpful for managing the data
- It is hosted on the cloud and doesn’t require much set up to get going
- The @Cloudant/Cloudand npm SDK has very limited functionality when compared to MongoDB, the Cloudant queries that can be made with JSON is good however, but it is not obvious from the start that you can do this.