--- 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 Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/11/2020 "Easy to use but slowly if doing heavy query searches or filters" 2.5/5 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. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain") CL Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/11/2019 "Fast DB but very poor documentaion" 2.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? Easy spinup of service in the BLUeMIx. Easy Data replication setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? Poor docuentation. No online referecnes. No community. NO preper response frmo IBM for questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? Qick indexing with huge data sets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace") UA Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/12/2019 "High efficiency " 3/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? Very efficient tool Scalable Low maintenance cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? The modules are too complex and hard to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant: Work with a consultant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? Storage issues. Time and efficiency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Micha v.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Micha v.") MV Micha v. Co-Founder & Managing Director Computer Games Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/22/2016 "Excellent technical support but sales people are a crime. " 3/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? We worked very close to the technical team in UK. They have very good ideas and more then open to give the right feedback and help you to the next steps. We had many troubles with combining Cloudant on an Amsterdam server and Microsoft Azure somewhere in West Europe. The technical staff was reacting fast to find out that there was a router problem with at Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? Our experience is that the sales team from Cloudant is the worst nightmare. They give the wrong advice and try to sell the biggest configuration possible. The only thing that counts is sales, sales and sales and do not care about startups and what the needs are from the client. Also the administration is a mess. Wrong invoices, invoices with a delay from 4 a 5 months is quite normal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant: DO research what you really need. Cloudant sales always try to sell the max. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? Scalable full service cloud solution where you do not have to take care of backups, peaks on your database when you launching a new game. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/15/2016 "Cloudant Review" 2.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? I used cloudant late in 2014 for our couchDB host provider. It was a great platform for getting us rolling at first, we had a hosted couch solution out of the box with no configuration and security to worry about. THey take care of everything for you and make the ramp up time is minimal. It has all of the features you'd expect from Couch, views, reducers and rest like data queries. Overall it's quick and easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? It's pricing. We ultimately had to dump it because we had a very write heavy application that had a lot of versioning and would write hundreds of thousands of records in a day. If you have an application that needs a store and is not write heavy this is the solution for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant: Bulk Posts. Get everything in there at once if you can, it gets expensive in a write heavy situation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? We used it for data storage of a web mining application to process info we scraped and transform it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## 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. 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