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Looking for a data driven dev platform? This could be for you

El Reg teams up with IBM Cloudant for coding comp

Promo A coding competition is coming soon, brought to you by The Register in partnership with IBM - where you have the chance of winning some serious Alienware and Oculus gear.

We will reveal more soon but in the meantime let’s get the party started with this call to developers, data science professionals and IT analytic architects to sign up now for a free IBM Cloudant cloud services trial.

Cloudant is a fully managed NoSQL cloud database based on CouchDB which enables users to deploy across different environments in different formats, while keeping data synchronised. Data is stored in JSON - in effect the data storage language of the web, which makes for great flexibility.

Notable features include advanced search capabilities for geospatial information, and Lucerne indexing technology for full text search. here is a clutch of deployment options - including on-premise and options to deploy native libraries for mobile users on iOS and Android.

You can find out more about IBM Cloudant here, and sign up now for a free IBM Cloudant fully managed cloud services trial here.

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