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Fauna vs. IBM Cloudant

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricFauna

by Fauna

IBM Cloudant

by IBM

Overall rating4.43.8
Review count2542
Ease of use8.08.8
Ease of setup8.49.3
Quality of support9.08.3
Meets requirements8.48.8
NPS562.564103
Small Business64.0%45.2%
Mid-Market24.0%23.8%
Enterprise12.0%31.0%
Total page views3196
Total LLM citations85106

Fauna

Fauna is a truly serverless operational database that empowers teams to ship applications faster. It combines the flexibility of a document model with the strong consistency and rich querying power of relational systems—all built on a serverless, distributed architecture that scales automatically, without the complexity of manual provisioning, sharding, or replication. Over 80,000 development teams choose Fauna to build and scale modern transactional applications including teams from Tyson Foods, Unilever, Lexmark, Intelliculture, Hannon Hill, Cloaked, DTLR, and Insights.gg.

Pros

  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
  • Flexibility
  • Reliability
  • Easy Integrations
  • Customer Support

IBM Cloudant

Fully Managed — IBM Cloud service provides a fully managed, distributed JSON document database. Instantly deploy an instance, create databases, and independently scale throughput capacity and data storage to meet your application requirements. IBM expertise takes away the pain of hardware and software provisioning, patching and upgrades, while offering a 99.95 percent SLA. Secure — Cloudant is ISO27001, SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and HIPAA ready. All data is encrypted over the wire and at rest with optional user-defined key management through IBM Key Protect.

Pros