AppScale vs Catalyze: What are the differences?

What is AppScale? An open source implementation of Google App Engine. Run your applications in any cloud- public, private or hybrid. AppScale is a platform that allows users to deploy applications developed using the Google App Engine APIs over Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Google Compute Engine, Eucalyptus, Openstack, CloudStack, as well as KVM and VirtualBox.

What is Catalyze? HIPAA-compliant cloud computing for healthcare. Cloud tools for healthcare. We provide a HIPAA-compliant Platform as a Service (PaaS), HIPAA-compliant Mobile Backend (BaaS), and HL7 integration services. Focus on building your digital health app, and not on compliance. Think of us as your healthcare-specific DevOps team.

AppScale and Catalyze can be primarily classified as "Platform as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by AppScale are:

• UI & Dashboard
• Manage Apps, Machines, and Logs
• Automated Data Persistence

On the other hand, Catalyze provides the following key features:

• Platform includes everything for infrastructure-specific HIPAA compliance: dedicated logging, monitoring, encryption in transit and at rest, backups, disaster recovery, vulnerability scanning, intrusion detection, to name a few
• Mobile Backend includes a compliant datastore, user management capabilities, custom classes, and more
• Audited 3 times, 2 HIPAA and 1 HITRUST

AppScale is an open source tool with 2.39K GitHub stars and 273 GitHub forks. Here's a link to AppScale's open source repository on GitHub.