Cloudant vs Orchestrate: What are the differences?

Cloudant: Distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for web & mobile apps. Cloudant’s distributed database as a service (DBaaS) allows developers of fast-growing web and mobile apps to focus on building and improving their products, instead of worrying about scaling and managing databases on their own; Orchestrate: Database as a Service. Add Search, Time-Ordered Events, Geospatial or Graph Queries Fast with a REST API. Orchestrate is a managed database service that delivers a single access point to full-text search, time-ordered events, geospatial and graph queries through a REST API. It allows developers to build complete apps or add features to existing ones fast, without the operational burden of deploying and managing multiple databases themselves.

Cloudant and Orchestrate can be primarily classified as "NoSQL Database as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by Cloudant are:

• Managed- Cloudant's big data experts monitor your data 24/7 to ensure its high availability and safety.
• Distributed Multi-Master Database- All read and write transactions can be synced across Cloudant's global data network without global locks, providing true high availability of your data.
• Geo-load Balancing- To keep latency low, our geo-load balancing infrastructure routes requests to the copies of the data that are geographically closest to the requestor.

On the other hand, Orchestrate provides the following key features:

• Search
• Geospatial
• Time-series Events