Heroku vs Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service comparison

The compared Heroku and Oracle solutions aren't in the same category. Heroku is ranked #14 in PSP , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 3.4% mindshare in the category. Oracle is ranked #20 in RADS , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Heroku users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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83% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Heroku

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

PaaS Clouds (14th)

Oracle Visual Builder Cloud...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Rapid Application Development Software (20th), Low-Code Development Platforms (16th)

Mindshare comparison

Heroku and Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Heroku is designed for PaaS Clouds and holds a mindshare of 3.4%, up 2.1% compared to last year.
Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service, on the other hand, focuses on Rapid Application Development Software, holds 1.0% mindshare, down 1.1% since last year.

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Cristian-Molina

Senior Developer at Go Coeupas

Has a quick development cycle and continuous integration

The initial setup is straightforward. Heroku integrates well. You only have to push the code, and it automatically deploys the new version. Whether you have permission depends on the application. Currently, I have one application that I deploy myself. I rate the initial setup a nine out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.

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Sherif Bashar

Head of Digital Solutions at Wind Integrated Solutions

Offers low-code/no-code concept makes development much easier and faster and offers good community support as the development team actively answers questions on the community every day

There are very minor things, like the feature called "action chains," that could use a bit of enhancement. But the team is perfect; they're working on it. An action chain is a sequence of actions triggered by a button or an event. It executes code in order, from top to bottom. For example, it could call a code, call a REST service, and then insert data into a database. It needs enhancement because it can be a bit complex for fresh grads or new developers to understand. It would be better if it was made more readable. That's the main point. But if you have experience, you'll understand it easily. One more thing I want to add about Visual Builder: up until two years ago, it supported native mobile development. That's not available anymore. They replaced native mobile development with progressive web apps, and most customers are complaining about that. We need native mobile development back – the ability to put apps on stores like Google Play or the App Store. That feature is not available right now, and they deprecated it starting in 2024. It's very important. Otherwise, clients go with Flutter or other mobile development tools. It would be good for Oracle to regain that capability. We need the native mobile development feature back.

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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

"It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things."

"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."

"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."

"The product is stable."

"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."

"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the auto maintenance of databases."

"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."

More Heroku pros

"The action chains are really helpful, and the trigger event, along with those action chains, has been very helpful."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The tool is very easy to use."

"VBS is another tool that allows users to create enterprise applications without needing to store their projects in traditional databases like SQL."

"The most valuable feature was the visual drag and drop on the components."

"You don't need a dedicated IDE to develop. You can work from any browser, which is very convenient. And, with the cloud concept, your code is stored in the cloud, so you can modify it from anywhere, at any time."

Cons

"We have to do daily restarts of some processes, which is annoying, and the support for custom CI could be better."

"We don't find the pipelines intuitive. The user experience could be better. Having to set up multiple apps, then a pipeline, seems like an overkill on the amount of work to do."

"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."

"Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it."

"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."

"I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances."

"Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure."

"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."

More Heroku cons

"There are some bugs in VBCS."

"I would improve the license structure as, for some companies, it may seem a little bit expensive, depending on what they're doing."

"The initial setup of Oracle VBCS can be challenging for those unfamiliar with DBS."

"The feature called "action chains" could use a bit of enhancement."

"There was an attempt to enable front-end development, it did what it intended to do, but the side effects were too bad."

"The tool has minor bugs."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price is very good."

"There is a standard fee for a processing unit, they call them "dynos," and then you pay for add-ons."

"The price of Heroku could be less expensive."

"I rate the tool's pricing a three out of ten."

"The tool is free."

"Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is much too expensive."

"It's not expensive when you consider what it provides: low-code/no-code development, faster development time, good quality, and good stability."

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Financial Services Firm

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Computer Software Company

12%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Heroku?

I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards.

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What needs improvement with Heroku?

I don't like that the web server crashes every day, every 24 hours. The pricing could be improved because scaling the database becomes costly. The Docker features are not great. You cannot use any ...

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What is your primary use case for Heroku?

We use the solution for web applications and web APIs.

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What do you like most about Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service?

The tool is very easy to use.

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

I actually don't have much experience with pricing, so I can't comment on it right now.

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service?

There was a requirement to build a custom form to raise AI invoices, using Oracle Fusion. We created a form, and another use case was that users wanted to create and update customers.

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Overview

Established in 2007, Heroku is a cloud application platform providing a streamlined, efficient place for web app developers to create and deploy their applications. Heroku is designed to maximize developer productivity. With the entire web application development process available on the Herokucloud, creating and rolling out web apps has been made more efficient, convenient, and cost-effective than ever before.

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Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is a cloud-based software development Platform as a Service (PaaS) and a hosted environment for your application development infrastructure. It provides an open-source standards-based solution to develop, collaborate on, and deploy applications within Oracle Cloud.

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