--- 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. 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Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![SHREEKARKOLANU R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SHREEKARKOLANU R.") SR SHREEKARKOLANU R. Software Engineering Specialist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/1/2023 "A flexible and easy to use Database" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? Easy to deploy and monitor applications with continuos delivery with the help of IBM cloudant. Helps in auto scaling and understands the usage of resources smartly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? Doesn't have records in the dashboarding layout and cannot be downloading in multiple formats. It takes time to have the large data sets matched and the volume might increase on a daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps to setup faster and with lot of flexibility it will allow the beginers to understand the options and settings available. It is also helping in identifying the resource usage and extend as per the best availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Joshua B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Joshua B.") JB Joshua B. Site Supervisor Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/10/2021 "Cloudant for a distributed offline first app." 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? Setting up databases in IBM Cloudant is fast and easy. Most of the CouchDB API is implemented. Cloudant is likely the best CouchDB replacement on the market. It is compatible with PouchDB and other CouchDB clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? The documentation could be more detailed. Some features are not described at all. Functions pertaining local couch documents are not available. For example, you cant list local documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant: Make sure to optimize your document structures to save on cost. While the Cloudant service is excellent in itself it's also pricey and therefore needs planning to assure that no unnecessary costs are generated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? We used IBM Cloudant for a distributed offline first app. It was important to us that we had a master-master database that enabled us to have write access even when no internet connection was available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") EI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/4/2021 "Reliable no sql db" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? For our customer, we needed to develop a complete cloud solution. We needed a database, but SQL DB was too strict about performing our goals. After spent a little bit of time in R&D, we decided to adopt cloudant. IBM provides a complete managed service, so you not have to care about configuration. Despite SQL DB, you did not have to manage a strict data structure, but you are free to customize data structure according to your requirements. GUI is straightforward. Just a few clicks and you can begin to work. IBM also manages replica so that you can build a very reliable solution into the cloud. Forget zero downtime. You can also find very complete documentation on the IBM cloud. Many examples explain what you could do and how you could do IBM provides several SDK so you can build solutions using node js, java, etc. There is also an online navigator which allows you to explore your data. You don't need third part tools to connect to cloudant .You can do everything in your browser Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? There is not something disliked, but i spent a little bit of time understanding the price model. I had some difficulty comprehending the query price plan. Consider every customer wants to know "how much cost it" before starting. Many times i had to read couch DB documentation to learn something. Cloudant doc is quite complete, but many times i had to search information using couch DB documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant: It's hard to give a recommendation for a product. But if you are looking for a no SQL DB, if you don't want to use MongoDB but you want something similar, IBM cloudant is the right product. You can leverage your knowledge in node js to write queries, if you've already other IBM services you have not to change cloud vendor to find other solution. By the way, spend a little bit of your time trying it before selling it to your customer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? Just only one answer."Time to market".In the first phase of the project, we changed many times our data structure to adapt to our requirements. Cloudant allows you to change data structure without destroying db.Do you need one more field? No problem, add it.No SQL script to adapt. You only have to change and "old data" keeps on working as well as the new. Do you need a system administrator to manage your instance? Answer is "no". You can log in to your account and perform commons operations without needing help from an administrator. Talk about support. In case you should face a problem, you have two options: 1) doing by yourself 2) ask support to IBM According to my experience, Last option is the best I had to deliver a product no spend time to solve the administration problem. So support is super fast, you must open chat, provide customer id and in a couple of minutes someone of support will help you to solve the problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") CC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/20/2020 "Provision an instance in seconds, no operational concerns, reduced time to market" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? It is extremely simple to create an instance and get it running. Therefore, the effort required to develop a scalable, performant application or proof of concept can shrink significantly. On top of that, Cloudant provides some capabilities that distinguish the product in the no-SQL landscape, such as full-text search and geospatial queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? The creation of complex queries can be a difficult task at first, especially in an environment more used to relational databases and SQL editors/sytax. When the complexity of the project increases, more attention must be paid in the writing and maintenance of less obvious views. Another drawback may be represented by a combination of cost and fit to the use case. It may be stated that Cloudant is more expensive than other no-SQL solutions. I personally disagree with this statement, in the sense that Cloudant provides several features (both functional and non-functional) that contribute to its cost. Nevertheless, if the use case does not benefit from any Cloudant's specific capabilities, then comparable results for the customers may be achieved with other, generally less expensive options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? By leveraging Cloudant's ease of use it is possible to flatten the time and effort required to deliver a proof of concept or MVP. Basically, Cloudant makes a breeze to start developing an application guaranteeing scalability and performance with minimal effort and no operational concerns. So, a first benefit of Cloudant is the removal of effort and costs related to storage provisioning, database application development and planning for scalability. Then, depending on the use case, Cloudant's specific capabilities may be leveraged. For example, a solution involving the storage of text document files may benefit from the full-text search capability built upon the Apache Lucene APIs, which is the search index used by state-of-the-art engines such as SOLR or IBM Watson Explorer Analytical Components, allowing an easy and more efficient search among the text content of the indexed documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mayur B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mayur B.") MB Mayur B. Technical Lead Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/25/2020 "Easy to use NoSQL Database" 3.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? Works really well in combination with other IBM services like openwhisk however it is very easy to use same with Aws services like lambda with help from @cloudant nmp package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? It takes a bit of time to get used with it’s indexing and querying feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant: I must say it is worth giving a try while you are evaluating different options of NoSQL databases. I am sure you will be able to use it for your requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? Using Cloudant we wanted to achieve flexibility of database design, using that we were able to have benefit of maintaining e.g. payments status information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Dhruv Kalpesh K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dhruv Kalpesh K.") DK Dhruv Kalpesh K. Data Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/30/2021 "IBM cloudant review" 3.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? Fully managed json based database which helps a lot for non structured data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? maybe a better community presence which would help a lot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? json related data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Satyanarayana M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Satyanarayana M.") SM Satyanarayana M. Technical Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/11/2020 "Using Nosql feature of cloudent" 3.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? This was the my first nosql database I use to migrate my client database from oracle. It was really a challenging task as it was new and totally different from RDBMS which I was using from quite a long time. Cloudent is just amazing. This is not just a nosql dB but also provides SaaS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? That time it was different to change mind from RDBMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? Reading data much faster. It’s map-reduce feature is just amazing. Documentation and support is cool. 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 Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/9/2021 "Cloudant a highly scalable database" 3.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? The document structure which can be accessed using just the apis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? Writing methodes in cloudant is littlr difficult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? Storing unstructured data with faster acess. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment") UB Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/8/2021 "Solution for File Handling" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? Cloudant provides easy way to handle sophisticated json or unstructured data handling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? Choices for relational DB wouldn’t be Cloudant as there are many solutions out there at a lower price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloudant: Do your research and find the best DB solution that meets your requirements. Also, if you are deploying your application online with IBM cloud solution, this is also a good option for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? File handling, mixed unstructured data storage and key-pair value store. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Masroor A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Masroor A.") MA Masroor A. Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/19/2020 "Nice UI to handle the data" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudant? UI to handle CRUD operations, easy to use compared to other NoSQL databases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudant? As of now nothing to say because not worked more on this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudant solving and how is that benefiting you? Used for testing purposes to update me regarding its working and configuration. 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