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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CloudFoundry

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACloudFoundry is a free, open source cloud computing platform supported by the non-profit CloudFoundry. It is not tied to any particular cloud service, but can be self-hosted or run on any cloud service preferred.N/A

    WaveMaker

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AWaveMaker is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) from the company of the same name in Mountain View, California.

    $500

    per user/month

    Pricing
    CloudFoundryWaveMaker
    Editions & Modules
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    WaveMaker Online
    $500
    per user/month
    WaveMaker Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Developer based pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CloudFoundryWaveMaker
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Features
    CloudFoundryWaveMaker
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of CloudFoundry and WaveMaker
    Feature
    CloudFoundry
    9.8
    1 Ratings
    24% above category average
    WaveMaker
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of CloudFoundry and WaveMaker
    Feature
    CloudFoundry
    -
    Ratings
    WaveMaker
    9.3
    2 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Visual Modeling00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings8.92 Ratings
    Platform Security00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Platform User Management00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Reusability00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Platform Scalability00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Oracle APEX
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CloudFoundryWaveMaker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CloudFoundryWaveMaker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CloudFoundry
    It's well suited if:
    • The organization has large number of applications that needs to be deployed frequently.
    • The organization is tied to the DevOps mindset.
    • The organization has programs in different languages.
    • The applications does not need EJB's support that servers like web logic provide.
    It's less suited if:
    • The applications needs security configuration within the same CloudFoundry instance.
    • The organization, for whatever reason does not want developers to manage the instances.
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    WaveMaker Inc
    WaveMaker is a great platform for enterprise and SME's because it can save a lot on resources and time. The price is very low compared to the other competitors of WaveMaker and the best thing about WaveMaker is its no lock-in policy, you can always download the code and work on other IDEs. Overall an amazing platform.
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    Pros
    CloudFoundry
    • Support for Orgs and Spaces that allow for managing users and deployables within a large organization.
    • Easy deployment, deploying code is as simple as executing single line from CLI, thanks to build-packs.
    • Solid and rich CLI, that allows for various operations on the instance.
    • Isolated Virtual Machines called Droplets, that provide clean run time environment for the code. This used to be a problem with Weblogic and other application servers, where multiple applications are run on the same cluster and they share resources.
    • SSH capability for the droplet (isolated VM's are called droplets), that allows for real time viewing of the App code while the application is running.
    • Support for multiple languages, thanks to build-packs.
    • Support for horizontal scaling, scaling an instance horizontally is a breeze.
    • Support for configuring environment variable using the service bindings.
    • Supports memory and disk space limit allocation for individual applications.
    • Supports API's as well as workers (processes without endpoints)
    • Supports blue-green deployment with minimal down time
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    WaveMaker Inc
    • WaveMaker has helped us create internal applications in very short amount of time at a very low cost.
    • The interface is really clean and it is easy to understand, you need not be an expert coder to work on WaveMaker.
    • You can download your developed application and deploy it on any server you wish. There is no lock in whatsoever.
    • The support team is super supportive and they are genuinely interested in solving your problems.
    • WaveMaker helps you develop web and hybrid applications simultaneously, so you will be saving a lot of time and effort.
    • WaveMaker is constantly upgrading and the team makes sure that they inform the users about the upgrades.
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    Cons
    CloudFoundry
    • Does not support stateful containers and that would be a nice to have.
    • Supports showing logs, but does not persist the logs anywhere. This makes relying on Cloud Foundry's logs very unreliable. The logs have to be persisted using other third party tools like Elk and Kibana.
    Incentivized
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    WaveMaker Inc
    • I believe that for this case, is important the technical support, which solves you or give workarounds that work for your issues. It answers in 24 hours, in labour days.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    CloudFoundry
    No answers on this topic
    WaveMaker Inc
    There were instances where we had specific requests and the support team was really helpful because they were really concerned about getting me a solution.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    CloudFoundry
    While Docker shines in providing support for volumes and stateful instances, Cloud foundry shines in providing support for deploying stateless services. Heroku shines in integrating with Git and using commits to git as hooks to trigger deployments right from the command line. But it does not provide on-premise solution that Cloud foundry provides.
    Incentivized
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    WaveMaker Inc
    WaveMaker is much cheaper and performs better.
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    Return on Investment
    CloudFoundry
    • Positive impact, since it simplifies the deployment time by a huge margin. Without cloud foundry, deploying a code needs coordination with infrastructure teams, while with cloud foundry, its a simple one line command. This reduces the deployment time from at least few hours to few minutes. Faster deployments promote faster dev cycle iterations.
    • Code maintenance such as upgrading a Node or Java version is as simple as updating the build-pack. Without cloud foundry, using web logic, the specific version only supports a specific version of Java. So updating the version involves upgrading the version of web logic that needs to involve few teams. So without cloud foundry, it takes at least few days, with cloud foundry, its a matter of few mins.
    • Overall, happier Developers and thats harder to quantify.
    Incentivized
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    WaveMaker Inc
    • WaveMaker has helped us reduce the number of developers working on the application development.
    • It has helped us save a lot of time.
    Incentivized
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