Bye, MongoDB. Hello, Cloudant

I really wish they had been more specific about the problems they faced. It sounds like part of the headache was that they had to write their own MongoDB to ElasticSearch connector. However, 10gen has now written one which they could use to avoid writing and maintaining their own: <a href="http://blog.mongodb.org/post/29127828146/introducing-mongo-connector" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mongodb.org/post/29127828146/introducing-mongo-c...</a>

We run BigCouch from Cloudant and it's amazing. They are awesome folks and spoke at our conference last year.<p><a href="https://github.com/cloudant/bigcouch" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cloudant/bigcouch</a><p>Disclaimer: I'm the community manager for <a href="http://www.2600hz.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.2600hz.com</a>

Interesting to find out what was going on behind the scenes at postmark. As a (albeit small) customer, we were noticing something was going on, but not exactly sure what. It's great to see the postmark guys sharing the info and being transparent. Overall I really like the service despite the recent issues.<p>As far as cloudant, I also never heard of it. Trying to go through the website, is this effectively a managed CouchDB in the cloud? Also, just wondering what's the migration path <i>out</i> of it (or who provides alternative service) <i>just in case</i> something doesn't work out.

We were running our own Bigcouch cluster and having all sorts of issues scaling to large numbers of databases (50k+), but after moving to Cloudant it handled it just fine.<p>It does cost more, but we don't worry about our database now and can focus on what we're actually good at.<p>Their search feature seems to be pretty good too. It is based on Lucene and is very flexible!<p>Chris Sharkey, Bislr

Cloudant seems interesting, never heard of them before. The pricing is intriguing. (<a href="https://cloudant.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://cloudant.com/pricing/</a>) From what I understand, it's free for most small projects but could get very pricey very fast, but then, handling millions of customers is far from being trivial to handle so I'm sure it's worth the price. Thoughts about the Cloudant pricing versus in-house solution (or vps)?

Is this going to become a trend here? Some random start-up writing "Bye-bye &#60;insert database name&#62;" or "Why we moved from &#60;db1 name&#62; to &#60;db2 name&#62;"??

We looked at MongoDB for our back end at <a href="http://moj.io" rel="nofollow">http://moj.io</a> and preferred CouchDB. It's currently a toss up between Iriscouch and Cloudant. Both seem like great offerings. We are particularly interested in the ability to sync to CouchDB on iOS/Android/Windows Phone in the future.<p>Does anyone prefer one service over the other?

Can anyone share how latency is overcome using a cloud based database?

On Mongo: "we were not big fans of the master/slave architecture"<p>I don't quite understand this, that architecture was basically deprecated a while back, can you elaborate?

Grr.. I can't figure if you can deploy cloudant in an on ec2 avail zone that you have your app in. Can you you even deploy it on ec2?<p>I don't see anything stating answers to these questions clearly on their site. And they want my email to let me see tech docs! Are they run by former IBM staff?<p>Finally, if they are 'hosted and managed all day everyday' some place far from me. I dunno if I want to use it.