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IBM Cloudant

The data layer for hyperscale, resilient and globally available applications—based on open-source Apache CouchDB

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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

Key features

Serverless

Instantly deploy an instance, create databases and independently scale throughput capacity and data storage to meet your application requirements.
Secure

Encrypt all data, with optional user-defined encryption key management through IBM Key Protect, and integrate with IBM Identity and Access Management.
Global availability

Get continuous availability as Cloudant distributes data across availability zones and 6 regions for app performance and disaster recovery requirements.
Geospatial indexing

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.

Diagram of a serverless web application workflow

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.

Workflow showing IBM Cloud Functions integrated with cognitive and data services to create a serverless back end for a mobile application

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.

Diagram illustrating the setup of an IoT device, data collection in IBM Watson IoT Platform

Open hybrid multicloud

Pair the API and powerful replication protocol of Cloudant with Apache CouchDB in a hybrid cloud environment.

Architecture diagram showing Cloudant's API and replication protocol integrated with Apache CouchDB in a hybrid cloud setup

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. 

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