Compare Google Compute Engine vs. Oracle Cloud Platform
Google Compute Engine is ranked 7th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 1 review while Oracle Cloud Platform is ranked 4th in PaaS Clouds with 8 reviews. Google Compute Engine is rated 6.0, while Oracle Cloud Platform is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Google Compute Engine writes "Offers good scalability but it is has a very arcane and complex security environment and projecting costs can be difficult". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Cloud Platform writes "Easily upgradable but it lacks customization abilities for users". Google Compute Engine is most compared with SAP Cloud Platform, Google App Engine and IBM Cloud, whereas Oracle Cloud Platform is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and OpenShift.
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The initial setup is reasonably straightforward. It's a handful of networks and a handful of computers. | I find the interface to be great. Technical support is good. We are partners with Oracle so we are always speaking with them. In terms of features, upgradeability to the latest version of Oracle suites has been a good feature. All we have to do is just patching or an upgrade, it's pretty easy. Then, it gets regularly updated. That's what I like about it. What I like most about Oracle Cloud Platform is the ease of getting data in and out of the cloud, and the affordable licensing. I like that the program is flexible. I can use it to write Java scripts. I also like the website, because it constantly updates me on things, like artificial intelligence, and the latest technology. I read the articles, on the latest technology that programmers can use. Apart from the licensing, there's support from Oracle Cloud Platform which improved our day to day operations. Time is reduced. Based on this service, we are able to scale up dependent applications as quickly as we can. The deployment is most valuable feature. The most important features are the turnkey solutions offered by Oracle. These ease the administration of Oracle Databases. |
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The biggest problem is that it's got a very archaean and complex security environment that has to be very carefully set up and is easy to break. | Technical support could be more responsive. The main issue for the clients is that they need to understand the credit payments because if it's a currency that's not dollars or euros, Oracle will always convert it into credits and that's not easy for the customer to understand at the beginning. The packaging part of the software needs improvement. It lacks customization abilities for users. Giving them VMs for machine learning or running their own programs like Azure and Amazon, for example. Things like scalability based on the requirement of the tools. Oracle still lacks these kinds of things. For example, if you need a VM from Oracle, you need to pay for a monthly fee. They started developing containership but it's still at the initial stage and it's still lacking. They also need to develop integration between packages. The technical support is really bad, because their reaction time is extremely slow. There's one app I have to install on my device, the Articulate Player app. It's only available on Apple and Android, but it's not available for Windows. I can't run the program on my desktop, to use it to learn Java. With the Oracle Cloud Platform, they have to give first some proper documentation with a step-by-step process. Then the customer is able to use it properly. Nowadays, the Oracle Cloud Platform requires lots of floor work. The setup was not simple. Customer service could be improved. |
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It's $60,000 to $70,000 a month to replace about $10,000 a month in data center costs. | It's not that expensive. I think it's maybe half or one-fourth of our actual on-prem cost, especially in Oracle Data Integrator. It's pretty cheap. Maybe around $30,000 or $40,000 per month. Make sure you read the fine print. My ROI has increased. |
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Views 782 Comparisons 525 Reviews 2 Average Words per Review 392 Avg. Rating 8.0 | Views 12,619 Comparisons 11,021 Reviews 8 Average Words per Review 524 Avg. Rating 7.4 |
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Google Compute Engine delivers virtual machines running in Google's innovative data centers and worldwide fiber network. Compute Engine's tooling and workflow support enable scaling from single instances to global, load-balanced cloud computing. Compute Engine's VMs boot quickly, come with persistent disk storage, and deliver consistent performance. Our virtual servers are available in many configurations including predefined sizes or the option to create Custom Machine Types optimized for your specific needs. Flexible pricing and automatic sustained use discounts make Compute Engine the leader in price/performance. | The Oracle Cloud Platform (also known as Platform as a Service or PaaS) provides a shared and elastically scalable platform for consolidation of existing applications and new application development and deployment. The Oracle Cloud Platform delivers cost savings through standardization and higher utilization of the shard platform across multiple applications. |
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| Allthecooks, BetterCloud, Bluecore, Cosentry, Evite, Ezakus, HTC, Infectious Media, iStreamPlanet, Mendelics, SageMathCloud, Sedex, Treeptik, Wibigoo, Wix, zulily, Zync | Sascar, Banca Transilvania, UL, Grupo Aerom_xico SAB de CV, Grupo Arcor, Australian Finance Group Ltd., MakeMyTrip Ltd., Kovaion Consulting India Pvt. Ltd., Kalpataru Ltd, Shelf Drilling Ltd. |
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No Data Available | Software R&D Company46% Media Company8% Manufacturing Company7% Comms Service Provider6% |
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