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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google App Engine

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle 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

    PrestaShop

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/APrestaShop is a free, open source e-commerce solution available under the Open Software License and officially launched in August 2007. The software is written in PHP and based on the Smarty template engine and is currently used by 165,000 shops worldwide. The PrestaShop group was founded in Paris, with a second Headquarters opened in Miami in 2011. PrestaShop is translated into 63 languages, with English, French, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish and Russian having full…

    $24

    per month

    Pricing
    Google App EnginePrestaShop
    Editions & Modules
    Starting Price
    $0.05
    Per Hour Per Instance
    Max Price
    $0.30
    Per Hour Per Instance
    PrestaShop Hosted
    $24
    per month
    PrestaShop
    Free
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google App EnginePrestaShop
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Prices are in Euros.
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    Community Pulse
    Google App EnginePrestaShop
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    PrestaShop
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    75%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    71%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    75%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Google App EnginePrestaShop
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Google App Engine and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    9.5
    32 Ratings
    20% above category average
    PrestaShop
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability10.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead9.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control10.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration10.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Google App Engine and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    PrestaShop
    7.3
    5 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Product catalog & listings00 Ratings9.75 Ratings
    Product management00 Ratings7.75 Ratings
    Bulk product upload00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Branding00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Mobile storefront00 Ratings9.75 Ratings
    Product variations00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Website integration00 Ratings9.85 Ratings
    Visual customization00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    CMS00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Google App Engine and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    PrestaShop
    6.9
    5 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Checkout user experience00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of Google App Engine and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    PrestaShop
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    7% below category average
    eCommerce security00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Google App Engine and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    PrestaShop
    6.6
    12 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Promotions & discounts00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations00 Ratings5.14 Ratings
    SEO00 Ratings6.912 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Google App Engine and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    PrestaShop
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Multi-site management00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    Order processing00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Inventory management00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
    Shipping00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Custom functionality00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google App EnginePrestaShop
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google App EnginePrestaShop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (36 ratings)
    7.6
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (12 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google App EnginePrestaShop
    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.
    Incentivized
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    PrestaShop
    This is a great system for small and medium businesses dealing from 1 product to 100,000 products. It is elegant to use and very stable. The system may not be great for converting into a marketplace and the handling of > 1million products. The system is also not suitable for services selling like events, registrations, subscriptions and ticket bookings etc.
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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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    PrestaShop
    • The PayPal button modality was integrated with the PrestaShop system, which helped our clients to complete payments digitally in just a few seconds, this integrated button allowed to streamline many transactions.
    • Performing inventory reviews and modifying the PrestaShop catalog was one of the things that I liked the most, I could make changes to the catalog, make changes to the conditions of the products in the catalog and all those changes were reflected on my website in a instant, no need to wait some time.
    • The PrestaShop system created a digital invoice for each client who made the advance payment of a property, which made it even easier to complete the property negotiation. Customers came to our company with the digital invoice for the advance payment and it was easy to identify the property that was paid, thanks to the digital invoice.
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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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    PrestaShop
    • Not a lot of free templates.
    • Images can sometimes be too compressed and lose their full quality, so better settings for that could be introduced.
    • Being able to change the look of your automatic emails via default settings can also be introduced.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    PrestaShop
    Considering the problems we had and still have, 0.
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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
    Incentivized
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    PrestaShop
    The lack of performance and the unstable system make it very hard to use it for a serious e-commerce application.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    PrestaShop
    100s of implementation and so far no major security breaches.
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    Performance
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    PrestaShop
    Some caching and optimization is definitely needed. However, it is not as bloated as other CMSs with lots of plugins needed.
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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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    PrestaShop
    Since we use PrestaShop OpenSource there is only community support. What we found is that many other users fight with the same problems and there seems no solution or input from the PrestaShop developers' side.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    PrestaShop
    It's a no-brainer for e-commerce stores. BigCommerce and Magento both far out-distanced PrestaShop in every major category. If you're just getting into e-commerce, I would highly recommend either BigCommerce or Magento. Their online documentation and support far outweigh any advantages you'd have over going with an open source software like PrestaShop.
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    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    PrestaShop
    This is the best example of "If it's not broken, don't fix it!".
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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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    PrestaShop
    • It slowed down our Hosting service. Our website took a long time to fully load on our clients' devices due to the high consumption of the integration with the PrestaShop service.
    • It provided us with a fast billing service, where our clients obtained invoices in PDF mode for the electronic payments they made for the properties. These digital invoices helped us to recognize the property they wanted faster and streamlined the negotiation process.
    • The templates that had an optimized design, were too expensive, this caused that our catalog design was very simple and did not capture the interest of customers.
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