Standard ADO.NET Access to Cloudant

The Cloudant ADO.NET Provider offers the most natural way to access Cloudant data from any .NET application. Simply use Cloudant Data Provider objects to connect and access data just as you would access any traditional database. You will be able to use the Cloudant Data Provider through Visual Studio Server Explorer, in code through familiar classes, and in data controls like DataGridView, GridView, DataSet, etc.

The CData ADO.NET Provider for IBM Cloudant hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.

Working with DataAdapters, DataSets, DataTables, etc.

The Cloudant Data Provider has the same ADO.NET architecture as the native .NET data providers for SQL Server and OLEDB, including: CloudantConnection, CloudantCommand, CloudantDataAdapter, CloudantDataReader, CloudantDataSource, CloudantParameter, etc. Because of this you can now access Cloudant data in an easy, familiar way.

For example:

using (CloudantConnection conn = new CloudantConnection("...")) {
	string select = "SELECT * FROM CloudantDB";
	CloudantCommand cmd = new CloudantCommand(select, conn);
	CloudantDataAdapter adapter = new CloudantDataAdapter(cmd);
	using (adapter) {
		DataTable table = new DataTable();
		adapter.Fill(table);		
		...
	}
}

More Than Read-Only: Full Update/CRUD Support

Cloudant Data Provider goes beyond read-only functionality to deliver full support for Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations (CRUD). Your end-users can interact with the data presented by the Cloudant Data Provider as easily as interacting with a database table.

using (CloudantConnection connection = new CloudantConnection(connectionString)) {
	CloudantDataAdapter dataAdapter = new CloudantDataAdapter(
	"SELECT Id, Where FROM CloudantDB", connection);
  
	dataAdapter.UpdateCommand = new CloudantCommand(
		"UPDATE CloudantDB SET Where = @Where " +
		"WHERE Id = @ID", connection);

	dataAdapter.UpdateCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Where", "Where");
	dataAdapter.UpdateCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Id", "80000173-1387137645");

	DataTable CloudantDBTable = new DataTable();
	dataAdapter.Fill(CloudantDBTable);

	DataRow firstrow = CloudantDBTable.Rows[0];
	firstrow["Where"] = "New Location";

	dataAdapter.Update(CloudantDBTable);
}