Cloud Foundry vs Oracle Developer Cloud Service comparison

Cloud Foundry and Oracle are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. Cloud Foundry is ranked #20, while Oracle is ranked #19 with an average rating of 5.0. Cloud Foundry holds a 2.3% mindshare in PSP, compared to Oracle’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 33% of Cloud Foundry users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Oracle Developer Cloud Service and Cloud Foundry are noted cloud development platforms competing in the cloud development category. Cloud Foundry stands out with comprehensive features and flexibility, suggesting a wider applicability in diverse environments, while Oracle Developer Cloud Service's pricing and support make it attractive for cost-effective solutions.

Features: Oracle Developer Cloud Service offers integrated DevOps tools, enhances productivity with project tracking, and supports various programming languages. Cloud Foundry, as an open-source platform, supports a wider range of languages and provides robust scalability options, allowing greater flexibility in development scenarios.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Developer Cloud Service provides streamlined deployment with deep integration into Oracle environments, which benefits customers already using Oracle technologies. Its customer service is praised for strong support within these ecosystems. Cloud Foundry has a more complex deployment model which may require more extensive setup but offers a scalable and customizable service, supported by a community-driven support model.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Developer Cloud Service is competitively priced, particularly appealing to existing Oracle customers, offering potentially quicker ROI due to cost efficiencies and bundled services. Cloud Foundry may incur higher initial setup costs but is considered a valuable investment for its features and scalability, offering a significant ROI over time for complex and scaling projects.

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Categories and Ranking

Cloud Foundry

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

20th

Average Rating

5.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle Developer Cloud Service

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

19th

Average Rating

7.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Cloud Foundry is 2.3%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Developer Cloud Service is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

PaaS Clouds Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Developer Cloud Service	0.5%
Cloud Foundry	2.3%
Other	97.2%

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Carlos Bittrich

Technology Advisor at Fabrik

Quick to deploy but being deprecated by IBM and should be merged with Kubernetes

We enjoy the fast deployment. Cloud Foundry builds the runtime environment directly without requiring dependency management from the developer or administrator. The autoscaling is great. It is just a switch that needs to be turned on, and autoscaling starts working. At this moment, you begin to see different meters about usage that helps you in updating the scaling limits, which help you tune the running instances. Besides this, autoscaling can be scheduled, so in times of low activity, you can have lower limits or increase in advance for special dates. It has good logging. CF has logging events that help identify when a transaction runs and its response time which helps in monitoring execution.

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Robert Roller

CEO at DbAdminPro

Ability to create different connections, multi-tenant architecture but slow execution of commands

There are a lot of features in Oracle Developer. You can create tables, users, views, materialized views. You can also do data pump jobs to export jobs, export databases and dump files, create backup jobs, that sort of thing. Users can usually integrate this tool with other solutions for development or management processes. There are different connections you can create. For example, with Office applications, you can connect to the database. Or if you're programming in Java, you can use a JDK connection to retrieve data from the database and read, store, or update records. For security, everything's perfect. You can use an SSH connection if you're accessing a server in the cloud, or you just have a normal IP connection if you're running your database on the local network.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"IBM is the only vendor to offer integration with blockchain for smart contract development."

"Cloud Foundry builds the runtime environment directly without requiring dependency management from the user."

"My favorite component of IBM's solution is Node-RED, which greatly shortens the amount of time required to develop, test, and deploy new applications."

"The solution's technical support is really good."

"With the multi-tenant architecture, you can migrate many databases to one instance. This saves a lot of money and administrative work."

"The APEX solution is the most interesting part of the Oracle Developer Service. APEX is the most cost-effective and most popular service for developers. Kubernetes and Docker services are also important and very much cost-effective, and helpful for developers. If we compare Oracle to other cloud services providers, they'll also be cost-effective. The financial involvement is also a good point because other cloud services charge for Docker and Kubernetes solutions. Oracle's offering is almost free. They only charge for the VM or virtual machine. This is also an interesting part for the developers as well."

Cons

"After the initial excitement period with Node-RED is over, you crave the need of additional integrations to third-party services."

"In IBM Cloud, the product has been deprecated in favor of Kubernetes, which is a more complicated infrastructure to manage."

"Improvements are needed in terms of the usage of the map chart and risk management services."

"Sometimes, I lose the cursor in the editor, and it disappears for no reason. It's hard to guess where I'm in the text, and I feel a bit lost."

"t would be better if the open-source databases were managed. Some managed services for open-source databases are available in other cloud solutions, but Oracle doesn't have any. They should provision more managed services for open-source databases like MongoDB and PostgreSQL. These types of managed database services should be available in Oracle Cloud Service and others. There are other technical issues like the CDN network that is not directly configured to Oracle and needs support from a third party. There are also some services available in AWS and Azure that should be included in Oracle Cloud Service."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"IBM has a free tier and payment option depending on the products selected."

"The pricing models should be reworked to the needs of a wider range of companies. Some customers will not be able to afford it until quite a few years into production, even after good PoC results and a successful launch."

"You are allocated a minimum amount of resources in the free tier. This seems fair and highly scalable, as you pay per usage as per cloud pricing schemes."

"Oracle Developer Cloud Service isn't an expensive product. It's definitely cheaper than any other enterprise cloud solution."

"I rate the pricing two on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

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Financial Services Firm

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Manufacturing Company

14%

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Developer Cloud Service?

It is free of charge.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Developer Cloud Service?

It's an old tool, and because it's free, there aren't many great changes. I'm fine with the features that are already there. But there is room for improvement in the performance of this product.

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Developer Cloud Service?

For Oracle, we use Oracle Developer. You can use it for both administration and development. There are also professional tools like Toad, but I don't have a license for that. It's a native program ...

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Overview

Cloud Foundry, home of the open source application development technologies CF Application Runtime and CF Container Runtime, is more than a platform. It’s a flexible way of embracing digital transformation that helps businesses evolve in the face of constant change. To put it another way, with Cloud Foundry, companies can rest assured they will have the right tool for the right job.

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Want to easily develop your apps in a fully provisioned environment that helps you code, test, deploy, and then manage them in the cloud? Then start today, by using Oracle Developer Cloud Service.

- Effortless Project Management

- Teamwork Through Integrated Tools

- What You Need, Before You Need It

- From Just an Idea, to Product Release

Within a robust and secure platform, your teams use the best industry-standard tools as part of a reliable and integrated infrastructure provided by Oracle Developer Cloud Service. This is all there for you for the life of your entire development process.

Oracle Developer Cloud Service smoothly and invisibly integrates your development environment with the latest versions of other services in Oracle Cloud, such as Oracle Java Cloud Service and Oracle Database Cloud Service.

For more information on Oracle Developer Cloud Service, visit Oracle.com

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