IBM Cloudant: The Do-More NoSQL Data Laye
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Did you know?
The NoSQL data management market is burgeoning: forecasts expect the value of the market to grow to
USD $14 billion between 2014 and 2018. Additionally, over 50% of NoSQL solutions use JavaScript
Object Notation (JSON)-based document data stores (including Cloudant).
Business value
It is clear that the momentum behind big data, mobile, social, Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud initiatives
is transforming the modern IT profession. We are already seeing an explosion of new products and
applications developed for these platforms, and the expectation is that these products will experience
ever-increasing consumption by established and emerging markets. Agility and elasticity are key in the
mobile application environment, where being able to rapidly scale up performance is necessary to
accommodate fluctuations in usage and load on your infrastructure. In the mobile space, the demand on
these systems can change on a day-to-day basis, and it is necessary for developers to have a solution in
place that allows them to scale up without having to scale their internal resources, as well. Web and
mobile application databases – and their administrators – must be prepared to face issues of cost,
performance, scalability, availability, and security head-on; all of which carry uncertainty and risk.
IBM Cloudant eliminates this complexity by enabling developers to focus on building next-generation
applications without the need to manage their database infrastructure or growth. A fully managed cloud
data layer service, Cloudant offers its clients the high availability, scalability, simplicity, and performance
that modern web and mobile applications demand. The scalability of a fully managed cloud DBaaS
solution simplifies the application development cycle and offers Cloudant clients greater agility for
launching new products or responding to an ever-changing market: build more, grow more, and sleep
more.
Cloudant provides the following benefits:
Offers a NoSQL data layer, delivered as a fully managed service. Liberates developers from the cost,
complexity, and risk of do-it-yourself data layer solutions.
Monitored and managed 24x7 by Cloudant’s big data and database administration experts.
Uses self-describing JSON “document” storage schemas to allow for flexible and agile application
development.
Mobile device and web replication and synchronization support for offline and occasionally connected
devices.
Built using a master-master (also known as “master-less”) clustering framework that can span
multiple racks, data centers, cloud providers, or devices.
High availability and enhanced performance for customer applications that require data to be local to
the user. Supplied by global data distribution and geo-load balancing technologies.
Delivers real-time indexing for online analytics, ad hoc full-text search via integrated Apache Lucene,
and advanced geospatial querying.
Supplies a RESTful API for ease of access and compatibility with developers that live and work on the
modern web.
Based on open standards including: Apache CouchDB, Apache Lucene, GeoJSON, and others.