IBM Cloudant
The facts below are what the maker publishes about IBM Cloudant, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From IBM Cloudant's own pricing page, checked 22 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Dedicated, single-tenant clusters |
| Enterprise | — | Dedicated, single-tenant clusters |
| Lite | Free | 1 GB storage · 20 reads/sec · 10 writes/sec · 5 global queries/sec · 1 instance per IBM Cloud account · Free |
| Dedicated Hardware | Priced on request | Private isolated database cluster · hosts Standard plan instances · private networking · BYOK · configurable IP allowlisting · provisioning can take up to 7 business days · Monthly charge shown in IBM Cloud Cost Estimator for selected plan and capacity |
| Standard | — | 20 GB included storage · starts at 100 reads/sec, 50 writes/sec, 5 global queries/sec · additional storage charged per GB · scalable throughput · Pay-as-you-go or subscription; hourly, prorated |
The facts
Each one read from IBM Cloudant's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API and SDKs
- Cloudant is accessed through an HTTPS API and provides SDKs for Node.js, Java, Python, and Go.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Availability
- IBM states Cloudant provides 99.99% SLA reliability and distributes data across availability zones and six regions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Backups
- Cloudant data is not automatically backed up, although IBM says supported backup tools are provided.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- IBM lists ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, PCI DSS, and SOC reports for Cloudant; HIPAA configuration must be requested at provisioning and requires a BAA.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Encryption
- IBM says all Cloudant instances use encryption for data at rest; Dedicated Hardware supports BYOK through IBM Key Protect, selected during provisioning.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Cloudant integrates with IBM Identity and Access Management, and IBM Key Protect can provide customer-managed encryption keys for supported Cloudant deployments.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended workloads
- IBM describes Lite as suited to evaluation and testing, and Standard as suited to development and production workloads.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- IBM Cloudant is a managed JSON document database service based on Apache CouchDB.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Queries
- Cloudant supports document lookups, views, Apache Lucene-based search indexes, and Cloudant Query.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Resilience
- Data remains readable and writable during zone outages, and customers can configure multi-region active-active replication.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Search
- Cloudant Search supports language-aware full-text, multi-field, and simple geospatial queries; IBM says to use Views for aggregation beyond faceting.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- Support for Standard and Dedicated plan instances is optional and provided with IBM Cloud Standard Support; Lite plan support is unavailable.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
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