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On the recordRead 11 Oct 202613 facts
IBM Cloudant
Plans and prices
Enterprise
Priced on request
Dedicated, single-tenant clusters
Read 22 Sep 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Lite
Free
1 GB storage · 20 reads/sec · 10 writes/sec · 5 global queries/sec
Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Dedicated Hardware
Priced on request
Private isolated database cluster · hosts Standard plan instances · private networking · BYOK
Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Standard
Priced on request
20 GB included storage · starts at 100 reads/sec, 50 writes/sec, 5 global queries/sec · additional storage charged per GB · scalable throughput
Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
On the record
- API and SDKs
- Cloudant is accessed through an HTTPS API and provides SDKs for Node.js, Java, Python, and Go.cloud.ibm.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Availability
- IBM states Cloudant provides 99.99% SLA reliability and distributes data across availability zones and six regions.ibm.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Backups
- Cloudant data is not automatically backed up, although IBM says supported backup tools are provided.cloud.ibm.com · read 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.cloud.ibm.com · read 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.cloud.ibm.com · read 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.cloud.ibm.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Intended workloads
- IBM describes Lite as suited to evaluation and testing, and Standard as suited to development and production workloads.cloud.ibm.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- IBM Cloudant is a managed JSON document database service based on Apache CouchDB.cloud.ibm.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Queries
- Cloudant supports document lookups, views, Apache Lucene-based search indexes, and Cloudant Query.cloud.ibm.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Resilience
- Data remains readable and writable during zone outages, and customers can configure multi-region active-active replication.cloud.ibm.com · read 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.cloud.ibm.com · read 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.cloud.ibm.com · read 11 Oct 2026
