Overview
Why IBM Cloudant?
Built on CouchDB technology with compatible API and replication protocols, IBM Cloudant supports flexible, schema-free JSON document storage, which is ideal for applications that require rapid, iterative development and dynamic data structures. It’s high availability and automated failover ensure 99.99% SLA reliability and minimal downtime.
Features
Instantly deploy an instance, create databases and independently scale throughput capacity and data storage to meet your application requirements.
Encrypt all data, with optional user-defined encryption key management through IBM Key Protect, and integrate with IBM Identity and Access Management.
Get continuous availability as Cloudant distributes data across availability zones and 6 regions for app performance and disaster recovery requirements.
IBM Cloudant has layered additional open-source technologies for full text search and geospatial indexing capabilities.
Use cases
Cloudant use cases
Serverless web app and API
Create a serverless web application in IBM Cloud Object Storage by hosting static website content and implementing the application back end using IBM Cloud Code Engine and Cloudant as a JSON document database.
Mobile app with serverless
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use IBM Cloud Functions along with cognitive and data services to build a serverless back end for a mobile app.
Find anomalies in IoT data
This tutorial shows how to set up an IoT device and gather data in the IBM Watson IoT® Platform. Create visualizations and use advanced ML services to analyze historical data and detect anomalies.
Open hybrid multicloud
Pair the API and powerful replication protocol of Cloudant with Apache CouchDB in a hybrid cloud environment.
Case studies
Case study
The Ticket Fairy
The Ticket Fairy leveraged global distribution to enhance scalability and performance. With IBM Cloudant, it was able to handle large volumes of ticket transactions during peak times to offer a more reliable and efficient service to its clients and users.
