Cloudant is a fully-managed NoSQL distributed data layer service based on a JSON document store that provides high availability, scalability, simplicity and performance. It uses a flexible schema and scales massively while always being available. Cloudant is an operational data store and NoSQL document database with a simple HTTP API that is fully integrated with mobile devices, big data, cloud and delivery. It provides replication, sync, real-time analytics using MapReduce, full-text search and geospatial capabilities.