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Add to SafariWhen comparing Google App Engine vs Back4App, the Slant community recommends Back4App for most people. In the question“What are the best Backend as a Service providers for webapps?” Back4App is ranked 5th while Google App Engine is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Back4App is:
The platform is reliable allow to scale up the applications running on it.
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Pros
Pro Increases application speed considerably
Google App Engine integrates with Google's CDN out of the box and it distributes your application's assets through that, increasing loading speed considerably.
Pro Easy to use
Google App Engine is very easy to use. All you need to do is install the SDK (which in itself is easy as well, and the documentation is very heplful) and run the command needed depending on the type of project to deploy it.
For example, to deploy a golang application, you run golang deploy inside the project folder and it will be automatically deployed.
Pro Open source
Back4app is an open source BAAS and Backend generator.
Pro Smooth migration from Parse
Back4App offers a smooth migration for all former Parse users who wish to migrate their data now that Parse has announced that it will stop soon.
Cons
Con Not a core Google product faces uncertin future
Google is notorious with flipping on technology directions, this product is clearly not the focus of Google.
Con Expenses are very hard to control
The monitoring for expenses is limited at best.
Con Problematic support even in the paid grade
Con No SQL database available
Google App Engine uses Google's NoSQL cloud database. There's no option to use a SQL database with your application.
Con Uses MongoDB for the backend, which is not considered very safe by many
Back4App uses MongoDB as the database where data is stored. Mongo has been known to have issues with data corruption and data loss.
