The data layer for hyperscale, resilient and globally available applications—based on open-source Apache CouchDB A fully managed, distributed database optimized for heavy workloads and fast-growing web and mobile apps, IBM® Cloudant® is available as an IBM Cloud® service with a 99.99% SLA. Cloudant elastically scales throughput and storage, and its API and replication protocols are compatible with
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