IBM Cloudant vs. Amazon DynamoDB

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.

Amazon DynamoDB is a pioneering NoSQL, fully managed, serverless database with limitless scalability and single-digit millisecond latency performance enabling customers to develop modern, microservice-based applications through a simple API. Customers enjoy the benefits of DynamoDB’s fully-managed service including broad compliance standards, security integration with AWS Identity and Access Management and numerous disaster recovery services.