Compare Amazon RDS vs. IBM Cloudant
Amazon RDS is ranked 4th in Database as a Service with 3 reviews while IBM Cloudant is ranked 11th in Database as a Service. Amazon RDS is rated 7.6, while IBM Cloudant is rated 0. The top reviewer of Amazon RDS writes "Helps to scale your database by providing Read Replicas, reducing transaction time". On the other hand, Amazon RDS is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service and Google Cloud Spanner, whereas IBM Cloudant is most compared with MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud Spanner.
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The cost of using this solution is similar to that of having your own data center. By using a combination of Reserve Instances and On-Demand pricing, you can reduce the cost. | Information Not Available |
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Views 2,755 Comparisons 2,443 Reviews 3 Average Words per Review 856 Avg. Rating 7.7 | Views 183 Comparisons 143 Reviews 0 Average Words per Review 0 Avg. Rating N/A |
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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizeable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks. | IBM Cloudant is a managed NoSQL JSON database service built to ensure that the flow of data between an application and its database remains uninterrupted and highly performant. Developers are then free to build more, grow more and sleep more. |
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Sample Customers | |
| Edmodo | Pearson, DHL, Adobe, Expedia, Samsung |
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Computer Software Company37% Comms Service Provider33% Media Company14% K 12 Educational Company Or School3% | No Data Available |
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