Competitor Analysis

aeolus community: competitor analysis

Purpose: Aeolus is an open source, high-level Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing Abstraction Framework that allows you to connect to, manage, and monitor any number of backend IaaS cloud providers. The following document outlines the various other IaaS cloud management frameworks and compares / contrasts various features they provide, for the purpose of analyzing Aeolus’s needs in order to grow the community.

Various other non-open-source / proprietary solutions are omitted from this list

Open Source Competitors:

name	License	Language	Architecture	Benefactors	Features	Drawbacks
*Pure IaaS Abstraction Frameworks*
libcloud	Apache	python	Local python library	Apache Sponsored Project, CloudKick , GlobalRoute, Server Density, Dewpoint, felicity, fusefs-cloudstorage, others	compute, pricing, security, storage, utils cloud APIs list_nodes, list_images, list_sizes, create_node, deploy_node, get_container, create_container, upload_object_via_stream objects / containers provides cross-cloud load balancer and dns functionality / methods support for bluebox , dreamhost, ec2, gogrid, linode, opennebula, rackspace, openstack, clouds files, S3,many others	Python only One monolithic package to do everything
jclouds	Apache	Java/Clojure	Local java library	Cloudsoft (developer), Twitter, RedHat, GoGrid, Adobe, others (users)	Support for AWS, EBS, Azure Storage Service, BlueLock vCloud ,Cloud Sigma, Eucalyptus, Go Grid , HP Cloud Services , IBM Developer Cloud , OpenStack , Rackspace, RimuHosting , Terremark eCloud + more createNodesInGroup, runScriptOnNodesMatching, destroyNodesMatching, getBlobStore, createContainerInLocation, putBlob, describeInstancesInRegion, + more ComputeService, Provider, Image, Hardware, Location , Template, Node, Group, Platform, Instance provision / monitor instances from java tools such as maven, ant, etc	- Java Only
fog	MIT	Ruby	Local Ruby library	Engine Yard, Private Developer; chef, gemcutter, (users)	Collections provide CRUD like operations (list, create, get, etc) on: flavors, images, servers, zones, records, directories, files Models provide operations on individual objects (destroy, save, etc) Mocks represent cloud resource for testing Requests provide ability to customize operations invoked on backend cloud providers storage, compute, dns, content delivery APIs support for aws, bluebox, brightbox, clodo, dnsimple, dnsmadeeasy, dynect, ecloud, glesys, gogrid, google, libvirt, linode, local, newservers, ninefold, openstack, rackspace, slicehost, stormondemand, vcloud, virtualbox, vmfusion, voxel, vsphere, zerigo - provides locally consumable API (no server needed)	- Ruby only, - No RPC interface
simplecloud	BSD	PHP	Local PHP library, part of the Zend framework	Zend, Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, GoGrid	File Storage Services storeItem, deleteItem, copyItem, moveItem, renameItem, listItems, fetchMetadata, storeMetadata, deleteMetadata Document Storage Services createCollection, deleteCollection, listCollections, insertDocument, updateDocument, deleteDocument, fetchDocument, query Queue Services createQueue, deleteQueue, listQueues, storeQueueMetadata, fetchQueueMetadata, sendMessage, receiveMessages, deleteMessage Infrastructure createInstance, deployInstance, destroyInstance, imagesInstance, listInstances, monitorInstance, publicDnsInstance, rebootInstance, startInstance, statusInstance, stopInstance, waitStatusInstance, zonesInstance	PHP only, part of the larger Zend framework, EC2/Rackspace/Azure only
compatibleone	LGPLv3	Python & C	Python application suite	ActiveEon, Bull, CityPassenger, eNovance, eureva, Inria, Institut Telecom, Mandriva, Nexedi, Nuxeo, Prologue, Xwiki in consortium; single developer	CompatibleOne Design integrates the consumer’s needs as described in the service manifest. CompatibleOne Scheduler builds and validates the provisioning plan. CompatibleOne Agents execute the provisioning plan. CompatibleOne Operator delivers the cloud services. meta-model for complex cloud architecture abstraction @ SaaS/PaaS/IaaS levels	- Beginners documentation is lacking (and alot is in French) - Python application
juju		python	Framework to orchestrate cloud deployments via reusable configurations called ‘charms’	Ubuntu	Automatic service orchestration built for the inherent elasticity of the cloud akin to cobbler, puppet, aeolus for the cloud define reuable ‘charms’ which are pulled in via juju to orchestrate cloud resources and services and the software ontop of it	- currently ec2 / ubuntu only
*IaaS cloud frameworks w/ cloud abstraction / interoperability components*
nimbus	Apache	Python/Java	Nimbus Cumulus Iaas Cloud framework w/ ec2 compatable interface and cloud, init.d orchestration framework w/ a cross-cloud context-broker deployment framework	University of Chicago, various research institutions, Argnone National Lab, ScienceClouds.org, various grant funders	Storage Cloud Service Remote deployment and lifecycle management of VMs Easy to Use Cloud Client group management Per-client usage tracking Per-user Storage Quota Flexible request authentication and authorization Configuration management (deployment request) One-click clusters (contextualization) VM network configuration (deployment request) Local resource management plugin VM fine-grain resource usage enforcement (resource allocation) Only nimbus / ec2 support
opennebula	Apache	C*+ / Ruby	OpenNebula IaaS cloud framework w/ ec2 compatible tooling & interface	>C12G labs Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu, VMWare, Citrix, Intel	User Security Management Control and Monitoring of Virtual & Physical Infrastructure Zones Hybrid Cloud Computing Interfaces for Cloud Consumers	- Only opennebula / ec2 support
eucalyptus	BSD	Python	Eucalyptus IaaS cloud framework w/ optional euca2ools compatibility interface w/ ec2	Eucalyptus Systems USDA, NASA, DoD, Sony, others Dell, HP, Intel, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Others	Manage: Zones / clusters SSH keys VMs Security groups Volume and snapshots Images IP addresses	Only eucalypus / ec2 support
boxgrinder	LGPLv3	Ruby	Creates appliances from simple plain text appliance definition files for various virtual platforms.	Redhat / Jboss	Tooling to create images / appliances for various virt hypervisors and clouds Define appliances via yaml template files Does one thing well, build images plugable architecture	Only cmd line tool, no API provided
http://cloud-standards.org and here http://compatibleone.org/bin/view/Download/Useful-Resources
dtmf			cloud provider, consumer, developer interoperability standards	many various members from industry
http://occi-wg.org/			RESTful protocol and API for various cloud management tasks	Open Grid Forum Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group Other contributors jclouds, eucalyptus, openstack, opennebula (implementors)
nist			NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture and NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap
Open Source Cloudware initiative