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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DigitalOcean App Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe DigitalOcean App Platform enables developers to build, deploy, and scale apps on what they describe as a simple, fully managed PaaS. Users of the former Nanobox, acquired by DigitalOcean in 2019, have been migrated to the App Platform upon Nanobox's end of life in March 2021.

    $5

    per month

    OCI API Management

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a comprehensive set of services to manage the lifecycle of APIs (application programming interfaces). The built-in tools let developers to collaborate on prototyping, testing, and validating APIs.

    $3

    per month per 1 Million API calls

    Pricing
    DigitalOcean App PlatformOCI API Management
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $5
    per month
    Professional
    $12
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DigitalOcean App PlatformOCI API Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    DigitalOcean App PlatformOCI API Management
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of DigitalOcean App Platform and OCI API Management
    Feature
    DigitalOcean App Platform
    6.8
    2 Ratings
    13% below category average
    OCI API Management
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of DigitalOcean App Platform and OCI API Management
    Feature
    DigitalOcean App Platform
    -
    Ratings
    OCI API Management
    8.6
    15 Ratings
    2% above category average
    API access control00 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings7.814 Ratings
    API usage data00 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    API user onboarding00 Ratings8.814 Ratings
    API versioning00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments00 Ratings8.815 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging00 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    DigitalOcean App PlatformOCI API Management
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Postman
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DigitalOcean App PlatformOCI API Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DigitalOcean App PlatformOCI API Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DigitalOcean
    I would only get into it if I where willing to pay for the support plan and getting some assurances from the team as to where they are headed. The platform itself is great and can save you a ton of hard work and money. but it's hard to be confidant in it's sustainability.
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    Oracle
    Oracle API Manager is well suited in a business or company that make use of Apis to facilitate access of backend services and data sources by the staff or customers or both. It is also imported in situations where all actions in a system need to be attributed to specific users.
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    Pros
    DigitalOcean
    • Hosting of serverless application
    • Hosting of load balancer
    • Hosting of virtual appliances
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    Oracle
    • API Manager allows for REST and SOAP API's to be easily created and tracked
    • API Manager allows for only certain people/applications to use the API (does this thru a subscriber service it provides)
    • It also publishes the API's it is tracking so developers can easily know what interfaces already exist.
    • The monitoring ability is a nice feature. The admin person can easily see how and where the APIs are currently being used
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    Cons
    DigitalOcean
    • The company has not been very communicative as of lately. Not much news, no apparent work on missing features.
    • Some components are incomplete as far as some critical features. For example, I use RethinkDB as my database and it's missing critical features like backup and clustering, so It is unusable and they should have made that clear from the get go.
    • The pricing on the support plan is vague. I do have the feeling it is actually well worth the money, but it's hard to form a decisions based without more predictable specific.
    • Seems to me like the platform's future is unclear.
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    Oracle
    • Absence of Role-Based Access. A finer grain control on what type of users can call certain API Endpoints is needed.
    • Performance with third-party databases isn't as fast as using Oracle Database.
    • Long learning curve. Although Oracle API Manager provides performance and a vast deal of features, a certain level of expertise is required to effectively make use of them.
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    Alternatives Considered
    DigitalOcean
    It can help you to host your virtual appliance or serverless application at very low cost. DigitalOcean marketplace also helps you to deploy the serverless app or virtual appliance effortlessly. It is suitable for small scale deployment and the process to setup an account and roll out your app via marketplace is easy and cheap.
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    Oracle
    Oracle API Manager is much easier to learn and understand then IBM Data Power Gateway and IBM API Connect. We selected Oracle API Manager in our company because to have a good intuitive interface with drag and drop features and because beginners and easily get up to speed to use this tool.
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    Return on Investment
    DigitalOcean
    • The platform is saving me a lot of time I would have been wasting on operations instead of development.
    • The platform is saving me a lot of money as I can easily switch between cloud providers to find the best price.
    • I am worried though for the price I might have to pay in case of an unexpected system issue.
    • Hopefully I will be able to pay the support plan before that.
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    Oracle
    • Oracle API Manager supports both REST & SOAP API's.
    • Secure and attributable connection to back-end services and data sources. In addition to creating API's for querying data, you can also create API endpoints that can manipulate the data in the back-end databases.
    • Although Oracle API Manager provides performance and a vast deal of features, to start with it is really important you train your people working on development, deployment and administrators to effectively use Oracle API Manager.
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