IBM Cloudant® is a fully managed, distributed database that is optimized for handling heavy workloads that are typical of large, fast-growing web and mobile apps. Available as an SLA-backed, IBM Cloud® service, Cloudant elastically scales throughput and storage independently. Our expertise takes away the pain of hardware and software provisioning, patching and upgrades, while offering a 99.99 percent SLA. Cloudant's API and powerful replication protocol are compatible with Apache CouchDB to pair for hybrid or multicloud architectures.