Middlewares Qualitative Comparison (versions of 2011)
This table comparison is a bit extraction of my master’s thesis submitted last year. However, now this information may be outdated because OpenNebula and OpenStack are evolving so fast.
New middlewares and big communities are emerging. Now OpenStack is taking strong. When we began my researches, OpenStack did not exist and during the development of my researches OpenStack is starting to emerge. OpenStack promises a lot and it is an important rival for OpenNebula. But now we think that OpenNebula has a better position to be a standard and it is the best open-source solution. OpenNebula is strong, with experience and ready to demonstrate that now is a better solution than OpenStack, Eucalypthus and others. But OpenStack is supported and funded for big international companies.
OpenNebula, OpenStack and others have a continuous quick evolution. In only few months they published a lot of new features and results. They have an aggressive growing and continuous development. It has been demonstrated that Cloud Computing is not the future else it is the present.
It should be clear that EMOTIVE does not want to compete with products as OpenNebula, OpenStack and others. EMOTIVE is a tool to test and research. So all environments created with EMOTIVE are pre-production environments.
|
Tool |
Eucalyptus |
OpenNebula |
EMOTIVECloud |
OpenStack |
|
Main feature |
implements cloud semantics |
virtualization control framework |
virtualization control framework |
simple to implement and massively scalable |
|
Highlights |
similar than Amazon EC2 |
Full framework |
Schedulers researches |
hypervisors, virtual networks and filesystems and the computing engine is orchestrating all of that |
|
Provisioning Model |
Immediate |
Best-effort |
Best-effort |
Best-effort |
|
Interfaces |
EC2-soap WS API and S3, Elastic Block Store (EBS) |
EC2, Sunstone,vCloud, API OCCI (storage,virtualization,network) |
WS REST / API OCCI (virtualization,network) |
S3 and EC2 |
|
Support for Hybrid Cloud |
no |
Amazon EC2 and ElasticHosts |
Amazon EC2 |
S3 and EC2 this year |
|
Hypervisors |
XEN,KVM,VMware |
XEN, XenServer(beta),KVM,VMWare/ESX |
XEN,KVM &VirtualBox |
Xen, XenServer, KVM, Hyper-V, VMWare/ESX |
|
Programming framework |
Java and C |
Ruby and wraps the XML-RPC in JAVA bindings |
Java & bash script |
bash script, python, others |
|
Flexible architecture |
no |
yes |
yes |
Yes (new plugins are emerging) |
|
GUI |
no |
yes |
BETA |
yes |
|
Command-Line Interface |
yes (unix shell) |
yes (unix shell) |
similar (Java Client app.) |
yes |
|
Image Management |
No (Repository) |
yes |
Only in Debian |
Yes |
|
Scheduling |
yes |
External |
yes |
Yes |
|
placement policies |
round-robin approach and greedy |
Packing, Striping and Load-aware, haizea, ecosystem, … |
HighAvailability Backfilling, round-robin approach and other researches |
– |
|
Live Migration |
no |
yes |
yes |
Yes |
|
High Availability and Backfilling |
no |
yes |
yes |
Yes |
|
Architecture |
Centralized |
Centralized |
Descentralized and modular |
|
|
Configuration |
Easy in ubuntu and Medium in others OS |
Easy in ubuntu and Medium in others OS |
Medium |
Beta version |
|
Storage |
s3 |
NFS, SCP, … |
NFS, SFTP, FTP, Hadoop, FS, …. |
yes |
|
VLAN |
no |
yes |
yes |
yes |
|
Currently version |
V1.6.2 |
V3.0Beta |
V1.2 |
Current Release (Cactus ), Next Milestone (Diablo) in Q3 2011 |
|
APIs used |
EC2 |
Libvirt and EC2 |
Libvirt and EC2 |
Libvirt and Xen API |
|
More contribution |
Open Community and Ubuntu |
Open Community, Ubuntu and UCM |
BSC and UPC |
Rackspace or NASA |
|
Community |
Big |
Big |
BSC and UPC |
More than 100 developers and architects |
|
Popular |
yes |
CERN, NIKHEF, D-Grid, SARA, SURF, ESAC-ESA, NCHC, CRS4, CESGA, CESCA, MPS, TID, EGEE, RESERVOIR, StratusLab, OGF OCCI, D-GRID, VENUS-C, NUBA |
Only reseach projects (NUBA, BREIN, VENUS-C, OPTIMIS) |
Now is growing a lot! (Rackspace, NASA, Rightscale, Citrix, Dell, NTT Data, PEER 1, Softlayer, Cloud..com, iomart Group, Opscode, Puppet Labs, Zenoss, AMD, Intel, Spiceworks, CloudSwitch …) |
|
Documentation |
Community, Eucalyptus site, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) |
Community, Opennebula site, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) |
EMOTIVE web site |
http://nova.openstack.org/ |
|
Licence |
BSD |
Apache2 |
LGPL |
Apache2 |
|
SO |
Linux, Windows |
Linux |
Linux |
Linux |
|
SO (LINUX) |
CentOS, Debian, OpenSuSE, RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu (Integred in Ubuntu UEC) |
CentOS, Debian, OpenSuSE, RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu (Integred in Ubuntu UEC) |
(Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/RedHat/CentOS) |
CentOS, Debian, OpenSuSE, RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu |
|
Default Placement Policies |
Default Placement PoliciesConfigurable Placement Policies |
Initial placement based on a requirement/rank policies to prioritize those resources more suitable for the VM using dynamic information, and dynamic placement to consolidate servers |
Simple Scheduling and High Availability Scheduling |
there are several to choose from (simple, chance, etc) but nova-scheduler is evolving for the future releases |
|
Configurable Placement Policies |
No |
Support for any static/dynamic placement policy |
Easy RESTfull interface to extend with some develop |
It is a area of hot development for the future releases of OpenStack Nova |
|
OVF support |
No |
yes |
yes (Alpha) |
– |
|
admin. interface |
only EC2 can be used (i.e. no suspend or migration of any kind) |
a superior administration interface (migrate, suspend VM,…) |
a superior administration interface (migrate, suspend VM,…) |
Yes |
|
advance contextualization |
No |
completed |
basic |
basic |
|
powerful API to extend |
basic (EC2 calls) |
yes |
yes |
http://www.virtualizationtimes.com/does-openstack-change-cloud-game |
|
Users management / Authorization & Authentication |
yes |
yes |
no |
Amazon API, VMware’s vCloud, Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and others |
|
MySQL support |
no |
mysql lite and mysql |
no |
[BETA] sqlite3, mySQL and PostgreSQL |
http://www.opennebula.org
http://www.eucalyptus.com
http://www.emotivecloud.net
http://www.openstack.org