G2 Vendor Directory

RethinkDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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

MetricRethinkDB

by The Linux Foundation

IBM Cloudant

by IBM

Overall rating4.33.8
Review count1542
Ease of use9.28.8
Ease of setup8.99.3
Quality of support8.18.3
Meets requirements8.28.8
NPS46.6666672.564103
Small Business53.3%45.2%
Mid-Market40.0%23.8%
Enterprise6.7%31.0%
Total page views2196
Total LLM citations33106

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.

Pros

    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