Jelastic vs tsuru: What are the differences?

Jelastic: Java and PHP Cloud Hosting. Jelastic is the next generation of Java hosting platforms which can run and scale ANY Java application with no code changes required; tsuru: Extensible and open source Platform as a Service software. tsuru is an open source polyglot cloud application platform (PaaS). With tsuru, you don’t need to think about servers at all. You can write apps in the programming language of your choice, back it with add-on resources such as SQL and NoSQL databases, memcached, redis, and many others. You manage your app using the tsuru command-line tool and you deploy code using the Git revision control system, all running on the tsuru infrastructure.

Jelastic and tsuru belong to "Platform as a Service" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Jelastic are:

• Set up environment in seconds
• No installation or configuration
• No APIs to code to

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

• Fast and secure. The entire process is really simple with no special tools needed, just a simple git push.
• Scaling in Tsuru is completely painless. Just add a unit and Tsuru will take care of everything else.
• Tsuru is built to be extensible. Through services you can provide anything your application needs.

"Managed hosting" is the primary reason why developers consider Jelastic over the competitors, whereas "Very receptive to contributions" was stated as the key factor in picking tsuru.

tsuru is an open source tool with 3.14K GitHub stars and 421 GitHub forks. Here's a link to tsuru's open source repository on GitHub.