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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Heroku Platform

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Heroku Platform, now from Salesforce, is a platform-as-a-service based on a managed container system, with integrated data services and ecosystem for deploying modern apps. It takes an app-centric approach for software delivery, integrated with developer tools and workflows. It’s three main tool are: Heroku Developer Experience (DX), Heroku Operational Experience (OpEx), and Heroku Runtime. Heroku Developer Experience (DX) Developers deploy directly from tools like…

    $85

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    OCI

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracles's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform which combines the utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure.N/A
    Pricing
    Heroku PlatformOCI
    Editions & Modules
    Production
    $25.00
    per month
    Advanced
    $250.00
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Heroku PlatformOCI
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Heroku PlatformOCI
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Oracle
    Chose OCI
    We wanted to move our heroku service to other cloud platform with better reliability and scalability. So we decided to give it a try.
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    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
    119 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    111 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    117 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    76 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    104 Answers
    Features
    Heroku PlatformOCI
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Heroku Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    Feature
    Heroku Platform
    7.2
    44 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces6.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability7.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead7.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability6.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control7.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration6.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation9.039 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication9.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification8.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery7.039 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes7.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Heroku Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    Feature
    Heroku Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    8.0
    138 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings8.7133 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings8.5133 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings8.3122 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings7.1122 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings7.4133 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings7.8120 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings7.6132 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings8.4134 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings8.096 Ratings
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    Heroku PlatformOCI
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry (discontinued)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.7 out of 10
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Heroku PlatformOCI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (47 ratings)
    8.3
    (150 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (6 ratings)
    9.3
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (17 ratings)
    8.8
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (28 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (19 ratings)
    9.1
    (20 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (11 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Heroku PlatformOCI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    Heroku is very well suited for startups looking to get a server stack up and running quickly. There is little to no overhead when managing your instances. However, you'll need a background in basic DevOps or system management to make sure everything is set up correctly. In addition, it's easy to accidentally go crazy on pricing. Make sure you're only creating the server instances you need to run the base application and set up an auto-scaler plugin to handle peaks.
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    Oracle
    As per our usage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for almost 6 years hosting 500 + customers I can say its well suited application for any small scale to larger scale application as it can handle that capacity and provide more reliable cloud service only if you need any messaging service like pub/sub or sqs better to consider other services.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Heroku has a very simple deployment model, making it easy to get your application up-and-running with minimal effort. We can focus on our efforts the unique aspects of our application.
    • The robust add-on marketplace makes it easy to try out new approaches with minimal effort and investment -- and when we settle on a solution, we can easily scale it.
    • Heroku's support is quite good -- their staff is quite technical and willing to get into the weeds to diagnose even complicated problems.
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    Oracle
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has a generous free tier, moreso than other hyperscalers, with an always-free tier that guarantees certain products are always free
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure allows you to size VMs with differing combinations of CPU and RAM, which is contrary to other hyperscalers that have specific pre-defined combinations only
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regularly provides free certification exam offers
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Large price jumps between certain resource tiers (2x Dyno for $50 per month versus Performance Dyno for $250). Free Postgres next jumps to $50 per month.
    • Marketing/Branding to non-technical stakeholders. As the years pass, I've had to fight more to convince stakeholders on the value of Heroku over AWS.
    • Improve Buildpack documentation. This is one area where Heroku's documentation is fairly confusing.
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    Oracle
    • Navigating the UI takes lots of getting used to. It reminds me of older GCP (just to get used to where everything is).
    • Permission for different things always seemed to be more difficult than it really needed to be. Once you got them set up you were good but updating anything or creating new permissions for just about anything took longer than I thought it should.
    • Based on how the buttons were laid out, it was pretty easy to delete all of your DNS records, and backing them up was not as intuitive as I'd like with the UI, but it was easy to do using a script.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    Heroku is easy to use, services a ton of functions for you out of the box, and provides a means to get a software product off the ground and managed quickly and easily. The tools provide allows a small to medium size org to move very quickly. The CLI tools provided make managing an entire technical infrastructure simple.
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    Oracle
    Reliability: Very dependable and stable OCI services have been for the business operations.Performance: The speed and efficiency of OCI in meeting their computing and storage needs.Scalability: The ease and effectiveness of scaling resources up or down to accommodate changing demands.Security: The robustness and effectiveness of OCI's security features in protecting their data and applications.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    Easy to use web based console and easy to use command line tools; deployment is done directly from a GIT repository. What more could you ask for? The one thing that keeps me from giving it a 10 is that custom build packs are almost incomprehensible. We used one for a while because we needed cairo graphics processing. Fortunately, I was able to figure out a different way to do what we needed so that we could get off the custom build pack.
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    Oracle
    The services & products in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure needs more improvement to beat other Cloud service providers. The price is good & Security processes are good. We are requiring to put more effort in supporting this Oracle Cloud Infrastructure than other Cloud service providers. Probably better ways are there but is not super easy to find or not super available
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    Reliability and Availability
    Salesforce
    Heroku availability correlates pretty strongly to AWS US EAST availability. We had a couple of times where there was a Heroku-specific issue but not for the last 7-8 months.
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    Oracle
    Yeah sometimes we had to face unplanned outages due to underlying infrastructure issues, so not every time,e but once in a while we face issues with availability. But the good thing is we have redundancy with DR setup and multi region so we can manage.
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    Performance
    Salesforce
    The only issue that I ever have is that about 1 out of 20 deployments (git push) will hang and need to be cancelled and done again.
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    Oracle
    From the start, I was surprised by response times and image quality accessing windows VMs with RDP. GCP, Azure and -many offerings in AWS- don't perform this speed. Also, that's evident in the quality of Infrastructure Management Team, because I just received one warning regarding a region failure, what confirms that's a mature platform.
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    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    I've used it for many years without facing any major problem. It's not hard at all to get used to it, it's documentation is outstanding and simple. We are close to 2020 and I don't think most of the existing companies or startups should still face old problems such as wasting time deploying code and calculate computing resources.
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    Oracle
    Overall it is amazing, there is always room for improvement. We have weekly updates that tend to slow the program used more and more. We had to change some reports within Oracle because the others wouldn’t load. This is tied to our payroll and the delays are causing many time constraint issues and panic. We have to create a new report when one breaks. Otherwise awesome!
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    In-Person Training
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Effective training provided, much data productivity while doing training
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    Online Training
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    detailed and easy to understand.
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    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    Be ready to pay a bit more than expected in the beginning if you're migrating from a big server. The application is probably not ready for the change and you have to keep improving it with time.
    It's also important to consider that you can't save anything to the disc as it will be lost when your application restarts, so you have to think about using something like S3.
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    Oracle
    Very much satisifed with the Oracle Support team during the implementation and Migration of applications
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    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    Heroku is the more expensive option for hosting compared to some of the cloud platforms we investigated, but it's worth it for us because of the plug-and-play nature of Heroku deployment. We can be up and running in a few minutes and know with precision how much it will cost us each month to run the application, unlike Amazon Web Services where you have to go to great pains to configure it correctly or else you might end up with a shocking monthly bill. Overall, spending the time to configure Amazon Web Services or one of its competitors is likely the more affordable and powerful choice, because you have control over so many specifics of the configuration. But it also requires the burden of continuing to maintain and update your AWS instance, whereas with Heroku they take care of security fixes and platform upgrades. It's a great service and we are happy to pay the extra cost for the value-adds Heroku provides.
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    Oracle
    We used Microsoft Azure and Docker earlier and faced some difficulties like Microsoft Azure and Docker. Occasionally, the generation of large images can delay deployment. It is also necessary for me to admit that Microsoft Azure and Docker have a somewhat steep learning curve. Proper paperwork needs to be there. Docker has issues with performance on a number of platforms. On the other hand, OCI is easy to deploy and easy to understand.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    was not part of initial purchase team. Anyways, i think unit pricing and billing frequency is good compared to other Cloud service providers, when it comes to Cloud Capital expenditure & Operational expenditure. Would be more interested in exploring more options where customers can get more cost relaxations on trying out new cloud services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for example a new App or a feature
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    Scalability
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    We have hosted around 500 + customers on this cloud so till day not faced any major issues, so we can use it for any kind of products and it can hold the load and easily scale based on need.
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    Professional Services
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Services & Infra wise is ok to use & host applications & services. Security wise also good for a Cloud service provider. It is a interesting area to explore & using it for day to day needs can be further improvised in future probably. Modern day Services like AI and Machine learning could be improved
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • It has been critical in seamlessly operating our platform with runs all of our programs.
    • It has been impressive with its ability to scale quickly which results in the growth of our work.
    • It allows for tracking of different features which allows for quick problem solving which saves us time.
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    Oracle
    • Oracle Cloud helps us build and deploy apps quickly, getting our products out the door faster.
    • With real-time insights from Oracle Cloud, we can give customers personalized experiences that boost satisfaction.
    • Migrating to Oracle saves us cash on hardware and maintenance, which we can use for innovation and growth.
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    Screenshot of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Global FootprintScreenshot of 2-5x Faster Performance vs On-premises and Other Clouds (Storage Review)Screenshot of One Cloud for the Most Intensive Enterprise and Infra-heavy WorkloadsScreenshot of Gen 1 vs Gen 2 Cloud AdvantageScreenshot of Always Free Services