IBM Cloudant Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score7.4 out of 10

123 Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights for IBM Cloudant are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

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.

IBM Cloudant Reviews

7 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesInformation Technology & Services7

Outstanding Services and products!!!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 28, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Software development and cloud storage from IBM

Pros

Stay up to date with the ever changing market
Fast and reliable
Easy to use
Great customer service

Cons

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!

Likelihood to Recommend

It’s really great for mobile developers and the development they do and also web based development as well! It makes it easier to get the job done and that’s convenient for time but not only that it’s great for the continued growth all around as businesses strive to be better for the consumer each and every day!

Orion Salazar

Student in Engineering at Coursera (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)

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1 year of experience

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My words on IBM cloudant

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 9, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used the ibm cloudant database to store the data, actually i want to store the data in nosql and cloudant is a no sql database, So its resoved my data storage issue. We can create n number of collection in a single data base and can access seperately to fulfill the purpose.

Pros

Filter by indexing
Data storage
Nosql

Cons

In schema prepration
Indexing to filter
Tabular view of stored data

Likelihood to Recommend

It's very easy to implement the IBM cloud and database in the rest API we can also view the data in the form of table. We can also create the query on the IBM cloudant panel to use in our program that provide a very easy way to developer software in iffective time frame.

Pankaj Choudhary

Sr. Android Developer in Engineering at Pataa® (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

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3 years of experience

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IBM Cloudant review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

September 22, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our department uses IBM Cloudant as a distributed NoSQL database solution for web-based applications. IBM Cloudant allows rapid writes of unstructured JSON data received on a second-by-second basis also it is NoSQL so it is not required to take care of [the] schema of the table application. 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.

Pros

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.

Cons

Limited support/documentation for programming languages such as Python, Perl, and R.
Time to index large databases needs to be improved.

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Cloudant is useful when some applications require [a] powerful NoSQL database where performance analytics is the key to business. It will be less appropriate where storage sizes of [an] application [are] huge as pricing on storage sizes as database size increases exponentially.

Jagmeet singh

Software Developer in Information Technology at HCL Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)

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1 year of experience

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I like it, but not quite sure I love it

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 27, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cloudant to store production data used in analytics/machine learning models. We run an agricultural management platform to help farmers improve efficiency and reduce risk.

Pros

Easily accessible via the IBM Cloud dashboard.
Ease of integration with IoT and analytics products.
Decent interface

Cons

Poor backup and recovery tools.
Not easy to sort data.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ease of integration with IBM Cloud services. Poor data management capability.

Michael Samson

Director in Information Technology at Omniolytics (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)

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2 years of experience

Cloudant Rocks!

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

February 14, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a cloud based solution provider and our products are deployed on the IBM cloud and we used IBM Cloudant as a database (persistent) storage. We use it across the board to store anything that needs persistent storage, from text to images and document attachments as well.

Pros

Strong query interface, IBM Cloudant provides a very robust and flexible query interface allowing us to write simple as well as complex queries.
Performance, for the most part we have been happy with the performance of the Cloudant database
Simple and straight forward. Ability to roll out the instances quickly and with a simple interface has been important for us.

Cons

The shared instances of Cloudant can have better isolation mechanisms. We have had instances where the performance of our instance was negatively impacted because other instances on the same node were taking more resources.
Better conflict resolution. Cloudant should take away some complexity of conflict resolution from the application. Today the application has to manage most of that complexity.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ideal for unstructured data and where data elements are self-contained for the most part. For relational-type data, Cloudant presents some challenges.

Deepak Kaul

CTO in Engineering at CogAbility (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)

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3 years of experience

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Cloudant: the best choice for my company

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 20, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cloudant with ACRA to track errors from our different mobile apps. Through Cloudant our company was able to optimize our workflow and make our apps better.

Pros

Cloudant is cloud. Through Cloudant our company was able to connect all of our services into a single database in a very easy and faster way. This made our maintenance and analysis about our services much easier.
Cloudant is elastic. This is very important in business today. We spend only what we really need and have used. Nothing more.
Cloudant is very easy. Our company was able to connect Cloudant with all of our services and apps very easily. In a few weeks Cloudant was completely integrated to our services.

Cons

Our company team is completely integrated with Cloudant. The service is great and any new feature will be welcome.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloudant is perfect for XaaS companies. The fit was just perfect for a company like ours, and we have improved our job since then.

Carlos Eduardo

CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Corporate at Techood Mobile (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)

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2 years of experience

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Scaling our data layer without headaches

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 4, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cloudant allows us to scale our data layer without worrying about the operations side of things to manage such a big cluster. Cloudant is the main database system for our company. It's business critical for our company and our many customers rely on its performance on a daily basis to perform their activities.

Pros

Scale your data layer without issues.
Great support team.
Very few operational problems

Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

It is less suited for reporting. Reporting is an issue. This is a general issue with document-based NoSQL systems, but there's no real solution provided by IBM for this (apart from "dump to a SQL database"). It's very well suited for a document-based system and we of course rely very much on the replication capabilities.

Nicolas Peeters

VP of Engineering in Engineering at AirFi / MI Airline (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)

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4 years of experience

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