Cloudant Brings BigCouch Cloud Database to Microsoft Azure

August 31, 2012 Off By David

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeff Cogswell.

Cloudant is a big data analytics company that has created a customized version of CouchDB called BigCouch that handles scalability and high-performance data distribution. BigCouch is distributed across multiple cloud providers throughout the planet.

Cloudant also includes a Web-based control panel through which you can sign up, allocate and manage your distributed cloud databases. The control panel makes use of CouchDB’s RESTful interface, allowing you to manage your database through Javascript and Ajax…

Additionally, you can write your own apps and host them wherever you choose using the standard CouchDB drivers available for the language you’re developing in. Cloudant recently added Azure into the mix of hosting. For this review project, eWEEK Labs’ Jeff Cogswell tried out the Azure hosting using the Web-based control panel. He also developed an application in Node.JS, hosted the app on yet another cloud—Rackspace—and in minutes created a worldwide distributed database app. The performance was good and the development required nothing more than standard CouchDB programming.