Cloudant is an IBM software product, which is primarily delivered as a cloud-based service. Cloudant is a non-relational, distributed database service of the same name. Cloudant is based on the Apache-backed CouchDB project and the open source BigCouch project.
Cloudant's service provides integrated data management, search, and analytics engine designed for web applications. Cloudant scales databases on the CouchDB framework and provides hosting, administrative tools, analytics and commercial support for CouchDB and BigCouch.[1] Cloudant's distributed CouchDB service is used the same way as standalone CouchDB, with the added advantage of data being redundantly distributed over multiple machines.
Cloudant was acquired by IBM from the start-up company of the same name. The acquisition was announced on February 24, 2014,[2] The acquisition was completed on March 4 of that year.[3]
By March 31, 2018, Cloudant Shared Plan will be retired and migrated to IBM Cloud.[4]