You can create a database on Cloudant with `/` in the name: http://docs.cloudant.com/api/database.html#creating-a-database.

Like this:

```bash
# Create a database named eap/sample
> curl -X PUT 'https://mikerhodes.cloudant.com/eap%2fsample'
{"ok":true}

# You must encode the / character...
> curl 'https://mikerhodes.cloudant.com/eap%2fsample'
{"update_seq":"...","db_name":"eap/sample",...}

# ... otherwise things are interpreted as the "sample" doc in an "eap" database
> curl 'https://mikerhodes.cloudant.com/eap/sample'
{"error":"not_found","reason":"Database does not exist."}
```

So we need to support database names with slashes. However, I think we can expect developers to properly encode the URL when creating it.