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Alternatives to Google App Engine

Mon, 10/20/2008 - 07:22 — natis

One particularly interesting EC2 third party provider is GigaSpaces with their XAP platform that provides in memory transactions backed up to a database. The in memory transactions appear to scale linearly across machines thus providing a distributed in-memory datastore that gets backed up to persistent storage.

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Mon, 10/20/2008 - 14:52 — Todd Hoff
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Re: Alternatives to Google App Engine

Nati,

GAE has some considerable problems, but its advantage is a low cost entry point, which is its target market. What would be my cost structure for deploying on XAP in EC2?

Mon, 10/20/2008 - 18:13 — natis

Re: Alternatives to Google App Engine

GigaSpaces is free for startup and provides fairly flexible pricing which include pay-per-use, subscription and perpetual.

You can read on our pay-per use pricing here: http://www.gigaspaces.com/ec2-pricing
I would also suggest that you would read GigaSpaces and the Economics of Cloud Computing

HTH
Nati S.

Wed, 10/22/2008 - 19:36 — Anonymous (not verified)

Re: Alternatives to Google App Engine

another option http://www.aptana.com/cloud

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