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IBM Cloudant

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  • "By using a combination of Reserve Instances and On-Demand pricing, you can reduce the cost."
  • "The cost of using this solution is similar to that of having your own data center."
  • "The price could be better."
  • "It is less expensive than SQL Server. We pay based on the usage on a monthly basis."
  • "We are paying for a service license."
  • "Licensing fees are paid on an annual basis."
  • "if you don't know how to optimize and use your tool properly, the cost might hurt you."
  • "Amazon RDS could improve by reducing the price."

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    Top Answer:The product's installation phase is easy.
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    Top Answer:The product is expensive. If Cisco needs two servers, Amazon uses four.
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    1st
    out of 23 in Database as a Service
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    9,454
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    Overview

    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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    Pearson, DHL, Adobe, Expedia, Samsung
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company27%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Government14%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Retailer7%
    Comms Service Provider6%
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    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise39%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while IBM Cloudant is ranked 15th in Database as a Service. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while IBM Cloudant is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Amazon RDS writes "Provides excellent authentication, authorization, integration, data protection, and autoscaling features". On the other hand, Amazon RDS is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service and Google Cloud Spanner, whereas IBM Cloudant is most compared with .

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