<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
is	O
an	O
IBM	O
software	O
product	O
,	O
which	O
is	O
primarily	O
delivered	O
as	O
a	O
cloud-based	B-Architecture
service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
non-relational	O
,	O
distributed	O
database	O
service	O
of	O
the	O
same	O
name	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Apache-backed	O
CouchDB	B-Application
project	O
and	O
the	O
open	O
source	O
BigCouch	B-General_Concept
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
's	O
service	O
provides	O
integrated	O
data	O
management	O
,	O
search	O
,	O
and	O
analytics	O
engine	O
designed	O
for	O
web	B-Application
applications	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
scales	O
databases	O
on	O
the	O
CouchDB	B-Application
framework	O
and	O
provides	O
hosting	O
,	O
administrative	O
tools	O
,	O
analytics	O
and	O
commercial	O
support	O
for	O
CouchDB	B-Application
and	O
BigCouch	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
's	O
distributed	O
CouchDB	B-Application
service	O
is	O
used	O
the	O
same	O
way	O
as	O
standalone	O
CouchDB	B-Application
,	O
with	O
the	O
added	O
advantage	O
of	O
data	O
being	O
redundantly	O
distributed	O
over	O
multiple	O
machines	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
was	O
acquired	O
by	O
IBM	O
from	O
the	O
start-up	O
company	O
of	O
the	O
same	O
name	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
March	O
31	O
,	O
2018	O
,	O
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
Shared	O
Plan	O
will	O
be	O
retired	O
and	O
migrated	O
to	O
IBM	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
was	O
founded	O
by	O
Alan	O
Hoffman	O
,	O
Adam	O
Kocoloski	O
,	O
and	O
Michael	O
Miller	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
early	O
2008	O
their	O
ideas	O
for	O
fixing	O
the	O
"	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
problem	O
"	O
caught	O
the	O
attention	O
of	O
Silicon	O
Valley-based	O
Y	O
Combinator	O
,	O
which	O
resulted	O
in	O
$	O
20,000	O
seed	O
funding	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
was	O
designed	O
for	O
cloud	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
,	O
automatically	O
distributing	O
data	O
across	O
multiple	O
servers	O
in	O
addition	O
to	O
scaling	O
the	O
database	O
to	O
accommodate	O
web	B-Application
applications	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
August	O
2010	O
,	O
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
released	O
free	O
BigCouch	B-General_Concept
under	O
an	O
Apache	O
License( 	O
2.0	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
offered	O
services	O
including	O
support	O
,	O
consulting	O
services	O
and	O
training	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
delivered	O
their	O
first	O
product	O
in	O
the	O
third	O
quarter	O
of	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
has	O
over	O
2500	O
customers	O
for	O
its	O
hosted	O
service	O
as	O
of	O
January	O
2011	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2010	O
,	O
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
was	O
recognized	O
as	O
one	O
of	O
‘	O
10	O
Cool	O
Open-Source	O
Startups’	O
by	O
CRN	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
was	O
regularly	O
recognized	O
in	O
the	O
local	O
Boston	O
startup	O
community	O
,	O
named	O
as	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
‘	O
Top	O
5	O
Database	O
Startups’	O
and	O
‘	O
Top	O
Ten	O
Cloud	B-Architecture
Computing	I-Architecture
Startups’	O
in	O
Boston	O
’s	O
popular	O
technology	O
column	O
by	O
Joe	O
Kinsella	O
,	O
‘	O
High	O
Tech	O
in	O
the	O
Hub.	O
’	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
February	O
24	O
,	O
2014	O
,	O
IBM	O
announced	O
an	O
agreement	O
to	O
acquire	O
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
acquisition	O
closed	O
in	O
March	O
,	O
after	O
which	O
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
joined	O
IBM	O
's	O
Information	O
and	O
Analytics	O
Group	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
,	O
2016	O
,	O
IBM	O
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
completed	O
the	O
donation	O
of	O
the	O
BigCouch	B-General_Concept
project	O
to	O
The	O
Apache	O
Software	O
Foundation	O
,	O
resulting	O
in	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
Apache	B-Application
CouchDB	I-Application
2.0	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CouchDB	B-Application
2.0	O
incorporates	O
many	O
of	O
the	O
improvements	O
made	O
by	O
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
and	O
BigCouch	B-General_Concept
to	O
the	O
original	O
CouchDB	B-Application
project	O
,	O
including	O
clustering	O
capabilities	O
,	O
a	O
declarative	O
query	O
language	O
and	O
performance	O
enhancements	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudant	B-General_Concept
's	O
hosted	O
database	O
extends	O
CouchDB	B-Application
in	O
several	O
ways	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Java	O
Language	O
View	O
Server	O
allows	O
usage	O
of	O
Java	O
for	O
CouchDB	B-Application
map	O
reduce	O
analytics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Application	B-General_Concept
programming	I-General_Concept
interface	I-General_Concept
keys	I-General_Concept
for	O
programmatic	O
access	O
to	O
CouchDB	B-Application
database	O
.	O
</s>
