Google App Engine vs. Oracle Application Container Cloud (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google App Engine
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Google App Engine is Google Cloud's platform-as-a-service offering. It features pay-per-use pricing and support for a broad array of programming languages.
$0.05
Per Hour Per Instance
Oracle Application Container Cloud (discontinued)
Score 2.0 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Application Container Cloud was a PaaS supporting the development of cloud native, 12-factor applications on a modern polyglot platform with Java EE, Java SE, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, GO and .NET. The service was discontinued in 2025.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Starting Price
$0.05
Per Hour Per Instance
Max Price
$0.30
Per Hour Per Instance
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google App EngineOracle Application Container Cloud (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Google App Engine
8.7
31 Ratings
11% above category average
Oracle Application Container Cloud (discontinued)
5.0
1 Ratings
43% below category average
Ease of building user interfaces9.017 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Scalability9.031 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Platform management overhead9.031 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Workflow engine capability9.023 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Platform access control9.030 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Services-enabled integration8.027 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Development environment creation9.028 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Development environment replication8.027 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification9.027 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Issue recovery9.025 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes8.028 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.3 out of 10
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(35 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.3
(8 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.7
(7 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(12 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Google
App Engine is such a good resource for our team both internally and externally. You have complete control over your app, how it runs, when it runs, and more while Google handles the back-end, scaling, orchestration, and so on. If you are serving a tool, system, or web page, it's perfect. If you are serving something back-end, like an automation or ETL workflow, you should be a little considerate or careful with how you are structuring that job. For instance, the Standard environment in Google App Engine will present you with a resource limit for your server calls. If your operations are known to take longer than, say, 10 minutes or so, you may be better off moving to the Flexible environment (which may be a little more expensive but certainly a little more powerful and a little less limited) or even moving that workflow to something like Google Compute Engine or another managed service.
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For how it is used within the organization it is perfectly fine. We use it for benefits, salary, and vacation tracking. It does make it easy to find your information within the system and make changes.
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Pros
Google
  • Quick to develop, quick to deploy. You can be up and running on Google App Engine in no time.
  • Flexible. We use Java for some services and Node.js for others.
  • Great security features. We have been consistently impressed with the security and authentication features of Google App Engine.
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  • Ease of use.
  • User-friendly.
  • Sleek layout.
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Cons
Google
  • There is a slight learning curve to getting used to code on Google App Engine.
  • Google Cloud Datastore is Google's NoSQL database in the cloud that your applications can use. NoSQL databases, by design, cannot give handle complex queries on the data. This means that sometimes you need to think carefully about your data structures - so that you can get the results you need in your code.
  • Setting up billing is a little annoying. It does not seem to save billing information to your account so you can re-use the same information across different Cloud projects. Each project requires you to re-enter all your billing information (if required)
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  • Fewer tabs.
  • More direct access to information.
  • More insight into where approvals are within the system.
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
App Engine is a solid choice for deployments to Google Cloud Platform that do not want to move entirely to a Kubernetes-based container architecture using a different Google product. For rapid prototyping of new applications and fairly straightforward web application deployments, we'll continue to leverage the capabilities that App Engine affords us.
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I am not a part of the team that would make this decision but as far as I know they are happy with the platform and how it performs.
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Usability
Google
I had to revisit the UI after a year of just setting up and forgetting. The UI got some improvements but the amount of navigation we have to go through to setup a new app has increased but also got easier to setup. Gemini now is integrated and make getting answers faster
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Incredibly easy to use and learn how to use. The interface is extremely easy to use.
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Support Rating
Google
Good amount of documentation available for Google App Engine and in general there is large developer community around Google App Engine and other products it interacts with. Lastly, Google support is great in general. No issues so far with them.
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The team who helps with the issue is very helpful when resolving the issue and usually can handle it in a very timely manner.
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Implementation Rating
Google
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The system is very easy to use.
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Alternatives Considered
Google
We were on another much smaller cloud provider and decided to make the switch for several reasons - stability, breadth of services, and security. In reviewing options, GCP provided the best mixtures of meeting our needs while also balancing the overall cost of the service as compared to the other major players in Azure and AWS.
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Return on Investment
Google
  • Effective employee adoption through ease of use.
  • Effective integration to other java based frameworks.
  • Time to market is very quick. Build, test, deploy and use.
  • The GAE Whitelist for java is an important resource to know what works and what does not. So use it. It would also be nice for Google to expand on items that are allowed on GAE platform.
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  • Employee Empowerment
  • Reduced lagtime
  • Connects correct people to correct situations
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