Visual FoxPro (Discontinued) vs. Google Cloud Datastore

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)
Score 5.5 out of 10
N/A
FoxPro is a programming language and DBMS formerly supported by Microsoft, now at its End of Life.N/A
Google Cloud Datastore
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Google Cloud Datastore is a NoSQL "schemaless" database as a service, supporting diverse data types. The database is managed; Google manages sharding and replication and prices according to storage and activity.N/A
Pricing
Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Google Cloud Datastore
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Google Cloud Datastore
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Google Cloud Datastore
Top Pros
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Features
Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Google Cloud Datastore
NoSQL Databases
Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Product A and Product B
Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)
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Ratings
Google Cloud Datastore
10.0
2 Ratings
13% above category average
Performance00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Availability00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Concurrency00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Security00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Data model flexibility00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility00 Ratings9.92 Ratings
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Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Google Cloud Datastore
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User Ratings
Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Google Cloud Datastore
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(3 ratings)
9.9
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Google Cloud Datastore
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Legacy applications already on VFP are a good candidate. If you plan to move to iOS and Android apps, VFP is not for you. Also, in future access to VFP programmers may be limited. You could use VFP as a powerful database tool. I know of many programmers who love to exploit the features of VFP to create easy to use applications.
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Google
If you want a serverless NoSQL database, no matter it is for personal use, or for company use, Google Cloud Datastore should be on top of your list, especially if you are using Google Cloud as your primary cloud platform. It integrates with all services in the Google Cloud platform.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Treat data from files
  • Reporting
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Google
  • Automatically handles shards and replication.
  • Schema-less & NoSQL.
  • Fully managed.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Microsoft stopped selling this and stopped supporting it in 2014. It still works on Windows 10, but if you have a problem, you are on your own.
  • The look and feel of screens and displayed text is getting a little dated.
  • It's really designed for desktop/server environments rather than the cloud.
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Google
  • It is hosted on GCP, which makes it harder if your company have multi-cloud strategy.
  • When you want to migrate to other cloud providers, there can be a caveat.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Google
For the amount of use we're getting from Google Cloud Datastore, switching to any other platform would have more cost with little gain. Not having to manage and maintain Google Cloud Datastore for over 4 years has allowed our teams to work on other things. The price is so low that almost any other option for our needs would be far more expensive in time and money.
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Usability
Microsoft
There are several easy to use and powerful features of VFP that programmers like.
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Google
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Microsoft
Although MS has discontinued support of VFP there is a good community of programmers that are available for help. In fact we have several programmers at Apptread that are skilled not only in VFP but also .NET so that if there is a need to migrate some parts of applications to .NET , it is easy for us to do that.
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Google
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
We are only using FoxPro because it is the only way to add custom plugins into the software we use to manage our stock. FoxPro is a semi-oriented object language and should clearly not be compared with recent technologies.
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Google
We selected Google Cloud Datastore as one of our candidates for our NoSQL data is because it is provided by Google Cloud, which fits our needs. Most of our infrastructure is on Google Cloud, so when we think about the NoSQL database, the first thing we thought about is Google Cloud Datastore. And it proves itself.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Positive impact is that the value of FoxPro applications has continued to increase over the years, so we are in high demand for our services.
  • Negative impact is that sometimes you have difficult to support scenarios where you might have to spend many hours to just keep something functional.
  • A negative impact is that this language is taught in very few places, either in schools, or private learning centers.
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Google
  • Simple billing part of Google Cloud Platform
  • No time spent configuring and maintaining Google Cloud Datastore.
  • Very good uptime for our applications.
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