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Product
IBM Cloudant is a managed JSON document database service based on Apache CouchDB.Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Free plan
YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · ibm.com
Integrations
Cloudant integrates with IBM Identity and Access Management, and IBM Key Protect can provide customer-managed encryption keys for supported Cloudant deployments.Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Support
Support for Standard and Dedicated plan instances is optional and provided with IBM Cloud Standard Support; Lite plan support is unavailable.Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
API and SDKs
Cloudant is accessed through an HTTPS API and provides SDKs for Node.js, Java, Python, and Go.Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Availability
IBM states Cloudant provides 99.99% SLA reliability and distributes data across availability zones and six regions.Read 11 Oct 2026 · ibm.com
Backups
Cloudant data is not automatically backed up, although IBM says supported backup tools are provided.Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Encryption
IBM says all Cloudant instances use encryption for data at rest; Dedicated Hardware supports BYOK through IBM Key Protect, selected during provisioning.Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Intended workloads
IBM describes Lite as suited to evaluation and testing, and Standard as suited to development and production workloads.Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Queries
Cloudant supports document lookups, views, Apache Lucene-based search indexes, and Cloudant Query.Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Resilience
Data remains readable and writable during zone outages, and customers can configure multi-region active-active replication.Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Search
Cloudant Search supports language-aware full-text, multi-field, and simple geospatial queries; IBM says to use Views for aggregation beyond faceting.Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com

Plans and prices

Lite Priced on request 20 reads per second · 10 writes per second · 5 global queries per second · 1 GB storage Read 22 Sep 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Standard Priced on request 100 reads per second · 50 writes per second · 5 global queries per second · 20 GB storage Read 22 Sep 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Enterprise Priced on request Dedicated, single-tenant clusters Read 22 Sep 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Enterprise Price not published Dedicated, single-tenant clusters Read 22 Sep 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Lite Free Free 1 GB storage · 20 reads/sec · 10 writes/sec · 5 global queries/sec · 1 instance per IBM Cloud account Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Dedicated Hardware Priced on request Monthly charge shown in IBM Cloud Cost Estimator for selected plan and capacity Private isolated database cluster · hosts Standard plan instances · private networking · BYOK · configurable IP allowlisting · provisioning can take up to 7 business days Read 11 Oct 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
Standard Price not published Pay-as-you-go or subscription; hourly, prorated 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

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