We performed a comparison between Docker and Oracle Application Express (APEX) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Docker is easy to understand and follow. It provides good scalability to the application."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the Dockerfile, which makes the life of developers easy. Developers get a real understanding of container creation."
"Docker allows you to run multiple virtual machines independently."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"There are ways of using Docker where you have absolutely no dependencies on the environment that you work in. This allows us to deploy Docker anywhere anytime and this has been most valuable."
"Docker's containerization property is its main selling point."
"We are able to stop our containers or stop the service with a single command."
"I am impressed with the product's independence. We can also deploy it anywhere."
"It helps us create web pages quickly."
"The solution can efficiently translate from English to another language including Arabic using the XLIFF format."
"The database is super easy to use for creating tables."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I like how we can actively develop and customize APEX because it's on the same database."
"The solution is easy to handle. The tool has helped us develop many applications since it supports SQL and NoSQL languages. We are familiar with this language. Also, the solution’s interface design and database design are very easy. It is not so much complex. I have no experience working with other solutions."
"Oracle APEX's reporting features are simple yet powerful. The ability to quickly create CRUD screens has simplified many RAD discovery processes, while the APEX environment allows the product owners and dev teams to quickly understand the complex solutions and employ usage statistics to identify areas requiring improvement. The option to add external JavaScript tools in screen development enables the development of complicated mobile or web usage scenarios in rare cases where the APEX UX is not enough."
"Oracle APEX allows our company to complete webpage projects easily in a fast turnaround time."
"The security layer is very vulnerable, although they are working to improve the system hardening and email hardening."
"The volumes for persistent storage could be more user friendly right out of the box."
"There are elements of stability that are problematic. One of the most recent upgrades created a major incident on our cloud, whereby the containers were not restarting automatically."
"One item that could be improved is the overall stability of Docker."
"Unfortunately, base images are not currently available."
"The solution is not easy to manage and it is one of the reasons why people introduce orchestration tools to manage it."
"I would love to have it available on Linux."
"We have found that it is not easy to install it into a Windows system."
"There is a bit of a learning curve involved when first using the solution."
"Reporting needs to be accessed via third party tools."
"Some of the application interfaces of Oracle Application Express are not very attractive and could be improved."
"Visual Builder and APEX should meld in one product."
"Occasionally when trying to un a page, I would be faced with an error number; however, not much information would be provided on the error itself outside of the programming language. It would be nice if more information could be provided."
"The solution has some stability problems that need to be resolved."
"It has a bit of a strict framework, you have to make all the time adjustments in their JavaScript. Another downside is that it's only available for Oracle databases."
"The product must provide more triggers."
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Docker is ranked 2nd in Development Platforms with 40 reviews while Oracle Application Express (APEX) is ranked 1st in Development Platforms with 52 reviews. Docker is rated 8.6, while Oracle Application Express (APEX) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Docker writes "Easy to deploy with an impressive networking feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Application Express (APEX) writes "An easy-to-use format that is flexible and scalable". Docker is most compared with Mirantis Container Runtime, Rancher Labs, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE and VMware Tanzu Build Service, whereas Oracle Application Express (APEX) is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Salesforce Platform, Mendix, Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service and Microsoft Azure App Service. See our Docker vs. Oracle Application Express (APEX) report.
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