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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure SQL Managed Instance

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAzure SQL Managed Instance is a scalable cloud database service that combines SQL Server database engine compatibility with a fully managed and evergreen platform as a service.N/A

    Google App Engine

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AGoogle 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.

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    Azure SQL Managed InstanceGoogle App Engine
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    Azure SQL Managed InstanceGoogle App Engine
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Azure SQL Managed InstanceGoogle App Engine
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    92%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    92%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Azure SQL Managed InstanceGoogle App Engine
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Azure SQL Managed Instance and Google App Engine
    Feature
    Azure SQL Managed Instance
    8.4
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Google App Engine
    8.7
    31 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces10.01 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Scalability8.01 Ratings9.031 Ratings
    Platform management overhead8.01 Ratings9.031 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability8.01 Ratings9.023 Ratings
    Platform access control9.01 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration7.01 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Development environment creation8.01 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Development environment replication8.01 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification9.01 Ratings9.027 Ratings
    Issue recovery9.01 Ratings9.025 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes8.01 Ratings8.028 Ratings
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    Azure SQL Managed InstanceGoogle App Engine
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    Score6 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.3 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure SQL Managed InstanceGoogle App Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    7.7
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    Performance
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    10.0
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    Support Rating
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    8.4
    (12 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Azure SQL Managed InstanceGoogle App Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Data management scenarios where there is a strong need to provide dynamic context for web based applications. Also can work as an infrastructure piece for ticketing systems without relying on another set of database software. The ease of importing data from Microsoft Excel &/or .csv files makes this really easy to use when importing data into the managed instance.
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    Google
    App Engine is such a good resource for our team both internally and externally. You have complete control over your app, how it runs, when it runs, and more while Google handles the back-end, scaling, orchestration, and so on. If you are serving a tool, system, or web page, it's perfect. If you are serving something back-end, like an automation or ETL workflow, you should be a little considerate or careful with how you are structuring that job. For instance, the Standard environment in Google App Engine will present you with a resource limit for your server calls. If your operations are known to take longer than, say, 10 minutes or so, you may be better off moving to the Flexible environment (which may be a little more expensive but certainly a little more powerful and a little less limited) or even moving that workflow to something like Google Compute Engine or another managed service.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • executes the queries efficiently
    • has tools/dashboards to show where the query problems lie
    • alerting for problems
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    Google
    • Quick to develop, quick to deploy. You can be up and running on Google App Engine in no time.
    • Flexible. We use Java for some services and Node.js for others.
    • Great security features. We have been consistently impressed with the security and authentication features of Google App Engine.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • hard to use without Microsoft knowledge
    • Intimidating CLI
    • Commands are not intuitive
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    Google
    • There is a slight learning curve to getting used to code on Google App Engine.
    • Google Cloud Datastore is Google's NoSQL database in the cloud that your applications can use. NoSQL databases, by design, cannot give handle complex queries on the data. This means that sometimes you need to think carefully about your data structures - so that you can get the results you need in your code.
    • Setting up billing is a little annoying. It does not seem to save billing information to your account so you can re-use the same information across different Cloud projects. Each project requires you to re-enter all your billing information (if required)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    App Engine is a solid choice for deployments to Google Cloud Platform that do not want to move entirely to a Kubernetes-based container architecture using a different Google product. For rapid prototyping of new applications and fairly straightforward web application deployments, we'll continue to leverage the capabilities that App Engine affords us.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    it runs the workload very well without causing any issues to the business. there are many applications running on Azure SQL Managed Instances in my organization. Most users are happy with its performance. Is able to provide good dashboard for the visibility of the workload. Can add cpu without a downtime to deal with high workload.
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    Google
    Google App Engine is very intuitive. It has the common programming language most would use. Google is a dependable name and I have not had issues with their servers being down....ever. You can safely use their service and store your data on their servers without worrying about downtime or loss of data.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Good amount of documentation available for Google App Engine and in general there is large developer community around Google App Engine and other products it interacts with. Lastly, Google support is great in general. No issues so far with them.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Azure to our enviironment where we have everything integrated stacks up far better than MySQL where we would have to reinvent and use everything to fit a MySQL environment including the data and the commands within that data. Furthermore, doesn't work really well on SQL Management Studio which makes it completely useless for what we are trying to do.
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    Google
    We were on another much smaller cloud provider and decided to make the switch for several reasons - stability, breadth of services, and security. In reviewing options, GCP provided the best mixtures of meeting our needs while also balancing the overall cost of the service as compared to the other major players in Azure and AWS.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • it had a positive impact to my business and allowed me to be able to move my workload from on-premise to cloud.
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    Google
    • Effective employee adoption through ease of use.
    • Effective integration to other java based frameworks.
    • Time to market is very quick. Build, test, deploy and use.
    • The GAE Whitelist for java is an important resource to know what works and what does not. So use it. It would also be nice for Google to expand on items that are allowed on GAE platform.
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