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Ayushi Dalmia
Ayushi Dalmia

Reputation: 305

How is Cloudant different from and related to CouchDB?

The only thing I understand so far is that Cloudant provides cloud support and uses CouchDB in the backend.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3079

Answers (1)

Kul
Kul

Reputation: 1239

Cloudant vs CouchDB 1.6

  • Cloudant is horizontally scalable (with respect to data size), CouchDB isn't
  • Cloudant offers full text search, CouchDB doesn't
  • Cloudant has a different authentication system
  • Cloudant has Cloudant query which allows you do declaratively set indices and query the DB. With CouchDB, you have to use views.

Cloudant vs CouchDB 2.0

  • Cloudant offers full text search, CouchDB doesn't (though you can get it if you're willing to do a custom compilation)
  • Cloudant has a different authentication system

Apart from these differences, there's the obvious one where with Cloudant you don't have to worry about provisioning and managing the servers, in exchange for a payment.

As to how Cloudant is related to CouchDB, CouchDB is obviously core to Cloudant's offerings. However, Cloudant has also contributed a lot of code to CouchDB resulting in some key features in 2.0 (horizontal scalability, query). Quite a few Cloudant employees are also on the CouchDB PMC.

Upvotes: 15

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