IBM Cloudant vs. RethinkDB
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | IBM Cloudant | RethinkDB |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 3.8 | 4.3 |
| Review count | 42 | 15 |
| Ease of use | 8.8 | 9.2 |
| Ease of setup | 9.3 | 8.9 |
| Quality of support | 8.3 | 8.1 |
| Meets requirements | 8.8 | 8.2 |
| NPS | 2.564103 | 46.666667 |
| Small Business | 45.2% | 53.3% |
| Mid-Market | 23.8% | 40.0% |
| Enterprise | 31.0% | 6.7% |
| Total page views | 96 | 21 |
| Total LLM citations | 106 | 33 |
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.
RethinkDB
RethinkDB is built to store JSON documents, and scale to multiple machines with very little effort. It has a pleasant query language that supports really useful queries like table joins and group by, and is easy to setup and learn.