--- 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 & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by IBM Cloudant but has limited features. Are you part of the IBM Cloudant team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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. * * * Seller [IBM](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ibm) Discussions [IBM Cloudant Community](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloudant/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Shannon Cardwell Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloudant/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![MongoDB Atlas](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MongoDB Atlas") MongoDB Atlas 4.5/5(900) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mongodb-atlas/reviews) [ ![Amazon DynamoDB](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon DynamoDB") Amazon DynamoDB 4.4/5(529) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-web-services-aws-amazon-dynamodb/reviews) [ ![Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)") Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) 4.5/5(909) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-relational-database-service-rds/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloudant/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 42 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Consumer Goods](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Goods") UC Verified User in Consumer Goods Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/17/2020 "IBM closant review" 2/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? It is easy to learn and the set up is quite easy too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant: There are much better cloud services out there than this. Please try to use azure or google services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness") UH Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/14/2019 "Not useful for most usecases" 1.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? It's replicated out of the box, and eventually consistent, has a REST api Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant: Make querying easier. Make writing those views (map / reduce) easier and more interactive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ## Questions about IBM Cloudant? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about IBM Cloudant ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloudant/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is IBM Cloudant used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ibm-cloudant-used-for) GU Guest User • Last activity over 4 years ago What is cloudant database? 0 Upvotes 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-cloudant-database) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloudant/discuss) ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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