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Cloudant

Cloudant enables you to build great web apps without having to worry about developing, managing, and scaling your data layer. Unlike traditional SQL databases, which limit scalability and slow down development with the constant need to redesign your data model, Cloudant provides a hosted data management and distribution service for fast-growing web apps using JSON (or other documented-oriented data models) combined with high-powered MapReduce indexers or Lucene-compatible full text search for querying. The Cloudant service is built on Apache CouchDB, MapReduce, and asymmetric horizontal clustering and analytics rocket science developed internally to help make building and growing web apps easy. Instead of traditional data models, you store data as JSON and access it via HTTP. Indexes are defined using a lightweight MapReduce protocol and can be written in Javascript or any language of choice. You can also store, manage, and serve your application code from within Cloudant. Replication is fundamental to Cloudant. Data--and indexes and code--is distributed to multiple Cloudant clusters in multiple SoftLayer data centers across the globe. This enables constant availability (even in the face of network failure) and low-latency application access from anywhere. Cloudant is to web app and database what a CDN is to website content.