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Engine Yard vs ForerunnerDB

A side-by-side look at Engine Yard and ForerunnerDB. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Engine Yard

Engine Yard

Development

Engine Yard is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides automated cloud hosting, management, and scaling for Ruby on Rails and PHP applications. It handles provisioning, configuring, monitoring, patching, and managing servers and applications in the cloud.

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ForerunnerDB

ForerunnerDB

Development

ForerunnerDB is an open-source JavaScript database that can serve as an alternative to MongoDB. It supports JSON documents and high performance for querying and indexing data.

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