Google Cloud Datastore vs. Azure Front Door

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Cloud Datastore
Score 7.7 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
Azure Front Door
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Azure Front Door is a cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that helps users deliver high performance, scalability, and a secure user experiences for content and applications. It includes a customizable rules engine for advanced routing capabilities. It boasts instant scalability with global HTTP load balancing and failover.
$35
per month
Pricing
Google Cloud DatastoreAzure Front Door
Editions & Modules
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Standard
$35
per month
Premium
$330
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Cloud DatastoreAzure Front Door
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsBase fees (Billed hourly and only for number of hours used)​
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Features
Google Cloud DatastoreAzure Front Door
NoSQL Databases
Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Datastore
10.0
2 Ratings
12% above category average
Azure Front Door
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Ratings
Performance10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Concurrency10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Security10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Data model flexibility10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility9.92 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 7.4 out of 10
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Google Cloud DatastoreAzure Front Door
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Cloud DatastoreAzure Front Door
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Microsoft
Azure Front Door is very easy and fast to set up and implement, if you are looking for an easy solution that is secure and reliable, Front Door does all that and can be configured in a few hours. AFD is a CDN with WAF, accordingly, it is well suited for any CDN Scenario, other providers such as Akamai or Verizon have a more expensive base price and are harder to manage/configure, Front Door is simple, easy, and provides what's needed when it comes to Web App Security. If you have multiple data centers, have apps in different regions, or targeting a global audience, AFD is an excellent option to get up to speed quickly. If you are looking for more features and capabilities, or planning a very complex setup, Front Door might be sufficient, but other specialized provides such as Imperva, Cloudflare or Akamai are generally a bit more advanced (but harder to set up and maintain). It always depends on the scenario, but for us, Front Door was an excellent option and served us very well with no issues.
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Pros
Google
  • Automatically handles shards and replication.
  • Schema-less & NoSQL.
  • Fully managed.
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Microsoft
  • Content delivery across all continents
  • Web & media acceleration
  • Web application firewall
  • Backend geo-availability
  • Reporting & access metrics
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Cons
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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Microsoft
  • Better control over origin caching
  • Hierarchal Management UI instead of distributed management
  • TLS & Cipher Control
  • Faster publishing or change updates
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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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Microsoft
It's generally hard to compare CDNs, each has its features, POP locations, latency, and availability. We have used many other CDNs, including Akamai, Verizon, and Cloudflare. They are all great, but each has its own advantages/disadvantages. From our perspective, all other providers were much harder to configure and maintain and their overall cost was higher than AFD. For example, Verizon was great, performance was excellent, but reporting/logging was not up to our expectations, and we had many issues with its Rules Engine. AFD is great for delivering your web apps globally quickly and easily, the cost is reasonable and comes with very little operational overhead, the logging and reporting capabilities are very good, additionally, its integration with Azure Cloud Services gives it an advantage over other competitors.
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Return on Investment
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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Microsoft
  • AFD implementation was approx. 80% cheaper than other providers, from initiation to operation.
  • It allowed us to minimize backend resources size/processing power, taking all the load from client requests, cutting tens of thousands of dollars monthly on compute, memory, and network bandwidth.
  • Overall, the ROI of AFD is very quick, it is not an expensive solution, therefore, its ROI goals are easy to calculate and achieve, our overall ROI exceeded 300%.
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