--- title: IBM Cloudant Reviews meta_title: 'IBM Cloudant Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 42 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM Cloudant works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.8 review_count: 42 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # IBM Cloudant Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Database as a Service (DBaaS) Providers](https://www.g2.com/categories/database-as-a-service-dbaas) **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 42 ## About 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. ## IBM Cloudant Reviews ### 1. IBM closant review **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudant?** It is easy to learn and the set up is quite easy too **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant?** I don’t like how the ibm services keep going down regularly. Not much documentation and help you will get either online or ibm documentation itself **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant:** There are much better cloud services out there than this. Please try to use azure or google services **What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had quite few services running and communicating with cloudant to get required rules and data for each models of appliances. It was fairly easy to set up and reuse a lot of code. ### 2. Not useful for most usecases **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudant?** It's replicated out of the box, and eventually consistent, has a REST api **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant?** Very difficult to fit in this product for most usecases. No query editor like the SQL editors, difficult to debug applications. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant:** Make querying easier. Make writing those views (map / reduce) easier and more interactive. **What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most of our usecases are transactional, but very small datasets for our microservcies, so we were trying to fit in Cloudant db as that's the only db offered on our catalog with replication, encryption at rest, and other compliance stuff ## IBM Cloudant Discussions - [What is cloudant database?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-cloudant-database) - 1 comment - [View IBM Cloudant pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloudant/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+22%3A41%3A26+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=af64cab1-ceb6-45ee-afe0-d02ad7dfb6fa&secure%5Btoken%5D=02c0a6a0eea90910d9ca724fc135e77aabc10cef7e73546dde1218cad0ddfe40&format=llm_user) ## IBM Cloudant Features **Management** - Real-Time Analytics - Solution Integration - Infrastructure Compatibility - Monitoring **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types - Built - In Search - Event Triggers - Semantic Search **Management** - Disaster Recovery - Remote Backup - Storage Formats - Scheduled Backups - On-Demand Restoration **Configuration** - Application Performance - Orchestration - Network Security **Solution Provision** - System Failover - Pay by Usage - Service Provision **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication - Backup and Recovery - Real-Time Data **Reporting** - Activity Monitoring - Documentation - Alerts/Notifications **Database Administration** - Provisioning **Performance** - Query Optimization - Ad hoc Query **Security** - Data Encryption - Security and Compliance - Deduplication **Availability** - Scalability - Backup - Archiving - Indexing **Security** - Data Masking - Authentication And Single Sign-On - Data Anonymization **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Data Management** - Data Replication - Advanced Data Analytics **Support** - Multi-Model - Operating Systems - BI Connectors - Data Connectors **Additional Functionality** - Database Conversion - Monitoring - Activity Dashboard - Data Extraction - Reporting/Analytics - Automatic Backup - Real-Time Monitoring - Audit Management - Data Visualization - Ad hoc Reporting - Compliance Management - Indexing - Search/Filter - Alerts/Notifications - Data Verification - Performance Testing - Data Capture and Transfer - Security Auditing - Access Controls/Permissions - Role-Based Permissions - Data Mapping - Data Retrieval - AI Copilot - Third-Party Integrations - Generative AI - Configuration Management - Audit Trail - For NoSQL Databases - Data Import/Export - Data Migration - Data Synchronization - API - Serverless Accessibility - Multiple Data Sources **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top IBM Cloudant Alternatives - [MongoDB Atlas](https://www.g2.com/products/mongodb-atlas/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (849 reviews) - [Amazon DynamoDB](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-web-services-aws-amazon-dynamodb/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (498 reviews) - [Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-relational-database-service-rds/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (866 reviews)