Salesforce Lightning Platform Reviews
Salesforce Lightning Platform

Salesforce Lightning PlatformFormerly Salesforce App CloudCompetitors and Alternatives

Most Commonly Comparedto Salesforce Lightning Platform

Best Salesforce Lightning Platform Alternatives for Small Businesses

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Score 9.0 out of 10

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the platform-as-a-service offering provided by Amazon and designed to leverage AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Higher Rated Features

  • Platform-as-a-Service
  • Ease of building user interfaces
  • Issue recovery

AWS Lambda

Score 8.8 out of 10

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing platform that lets users run code without provisioning or managing servers. With Lambda, users can run code for virtually any type of app or backend service—all with zero administration. It takes of requirements to run and scale code with high availability.

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the AWS Lambda

IBM Cloud Foundry

Score 8.1 out of 10

IBM Cloud Foundry is an IBM version of the open-source platform designed for building, testing, deploying, and scaling applications. Enterprises can run Cloud Foundry in a public isolated environment, while natively integrating with other IBM Cloud services, such as AI, Blockchain, and IoT.

Higher Rated Features

  • Platform management overhead

Microsoft Azure

Score 8.6 out of 10

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the Microsoft Azure

Azure App Service

Score 8.4 out of 10

The Microsoft Azure App Service is a PaaS that enables users to build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs, a fully managed service with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling. Includes Azure Web Apps, Azure Mobile Apps, Azure API Apps, allowing developers to use popular frameworks including .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, and Ruby.

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the Azure App Service

Google App Engine

Score 8.4 out of 10

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.

Higher Rated Features

  • Issue monitoring and notification
  • Ease of building user interfaces
  • Issue recovery

CS-Cart Multi-Vendor

Score 8.6 out of 10

CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is an eCommerce marketplace software for SMBs available in cloud (No-Code) and self-hosted (On-Premises) versions. It allows users to open an online marketplace, where the user is the admin, and all the others—invited sellers. Each seller has his or her own micro-store with a customizable storefront, categories, filters, and search. Just like in Amazon. In the CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform, managing vendors is designed to be simple: invite individual sellers,…

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the CS-Cart Multi-Vendor

Google Compute Engine

Score 8.2 out of 10
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Google Compute Engine is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) product from Google Cloud. It provides virtual machines with carbon-neutral infrastructure which run on the same data centers that Google itself uses.

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the Google Compute Engine

Heroku Platform

Score 8.2 out of 10

The 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 Git, GitHub or…

Higher Rated Features

  • Issue recovery
  • Issue monitoring and notification

Oracle Cloud Platform

Score 8.2 out of 10

The Oracle Cloud Platform is Oracle's platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. It is designed to help developers rapidly build and deploy applications or extend Oracle Cloud SaaS apps.

Higher Rated Features

  • Platform-as-a-Service
  • Issue monitoring and notification
  • Issue recovery

Best Salesforce Lightning Platform Alternatives for Medium-sized Companies

IBM Cloud Private

Score 9.5 out of 10

IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based container platform allowing users to build cloud-native applications on their own infrastructure. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, as well as middleware, data and analytics.

Higher Rated Features

  • Platform-as-a-Service
  • Scalability

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Score 9.0 out of 10

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the platform-as-a-service offering provided by Amazon and designed to leverage AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Higher Rated Features

  • Platform-as-a-Service
  • Ease of building user interfaces
  • Issue recovery

AWS Lambda

Score 8.8 out of 10

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing platform that lets users run code without provisioning or managing servers. With Lambda, users can run code for virtually any type of app or backend service—all with zero administration. It takes of requirements to run and scale code with high availability.

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the AWS Lambda

IBM Cloud Foundry

Score 8.1 out of 10

IBM Cloud Foundry is an IBM version of the open-source platform designed for building, testing, deploying, and scaling applications. Enterprises can run Cloud Foundry in a public isolated environment, while natively integrating with other IBM Cloud services, such as AI, Blockchain, and IoT.

Higher Rated Features

  • Platform management overhead

Red Hat OpenShift

Score 8.6 out of 10
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OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

Higher Rated Features

  • Ease of building user interfaces
  • Issue recovery

Microsoft Azure

Score 8.6 out of 10

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the Microsoft Azure

Azure Cloud Services

Score 8.6 out of 10

Azure Cloud Services is a cloud platform that enables users to create infinitely-scalable cloud applications and APIs. It enables users to build the web and cloud applications needed while also simplifying the management of applications with cloud services, and while ensuring high availability. Users can: scale an environment automatically based on demand and reduce costs, automate operating system and application updates to increase security, and take advantage of integrated health monitoring…

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the Azure Cloud Services

Google App Engine

Score 8.4 out of 10

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.

Higher Rated Features

  • Issue monitoring and notification
  • Ease of building user interfaces
  • Issue recovery

Azure App Service

Score 8.4 out of 10

The Microsoft Azure App Service is a PaaS that enables users to build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs, a fully managed service with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling. Includes Azure Web Apps, Azure Mobile Apps, Azure API Apps, allowing developers to use popular frameworks including .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, and Ruby.

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the Azure App Service

Java Cloud

Score 7.3 out of 10

Oracle offers the Java Cloud Service, a PaaS supporting the fast and easy development of Java applications.

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the Java Cloud

Best Salesforce Lightning Platform Alternatives for Enterprises

IBM Cloud Private

Score 9.5 out of 10

IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based container platform allowing users to build cloud-native applications on their own infrastructure. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, as well as middleware, data and analytics.

Higher Rated Features

  • Platform-as-a-Service
  • Scalability

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Score 9.0 out of 10

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the platform-as-a-service offering provided by Amazon and designed to leverage AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Higher Rated Features

  • Platform-as-a-Service
  • Ease of building user interfaces
  • Issue recovery

AWS Lambda

Score 8.8 out of 10

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing platform that lets users run code without provisioning or managing servers. With Lambda, users can run code for virtually any type of app or backend service—all with zero administration. It takes of requirements to run and scale code with high availability.

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the AWS Lambda

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

Score 8.9 out of 10

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a comprehensive service that offers fully managed OpenShift clusters, on IBM Cloud platform. It is directly integrated into the same Kubernetes service that maintains 25 billion on-demand forecasts daily at The Weather Company.

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud Foundry

Score 8.1 out of 10

IBM Cloud Foundry is an IBM version of the open-source platform designed for building, testing, deploying, and scaling applications. Enterprises can run Cloud Foundry in a public isolated environment, while natively integrating with other IBM Cloud services, such as AI, Blockchain, and IoT.

Higher Rated Features

  • Platform management overhead

IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Score 8.7 out of 10

The IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides the Managed Istio installation add on, designed to provide additonal control over clusters and the microservices they comprise via automatic updates and lifecycle management of control plane components, and integration with platform logging and monitoring tools.

Higher Rated Features

  • Issue recovery
  • Issue monitoring and notification

Red Hat OpenShift

Score 8.6 out of 10
Learn More

OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

Higher Rated Features

  • Ease of building user interfaces
  • Issue recovery

Microsoft Azure

Score 8.6 out of 10

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the Microsoft Azure

Google App Engine

Score 8.4 out of 10

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.

Higher Rated Features

  • Issue monitoring and notification
  • Ease of building user interfaces
  • Issue recovery

SAP Business Technology Platform

Score 8.4 out of 10
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SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is the company's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, that brings together intelligent enterprise applications with database and data management, analytics, integration and extension capabilities into one platform for both cloud and hybrid environments, including hundreds of pre-built integrations for SAP and third-party applications.

Higher Rated Features

Customers are more satisfied with the features of Salesforce Lightning Platform than the SAP Business Technology Platform