Advances, Systems and Applications
Table 2 Cloud-based comparison of production/commercial CROFs
| Â | CROFs | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloud Features | Heat | Cloudify | Brooklyn | Stratos | Alien4Cloud | Terraform | CloudFormation |
Multi-Cloud | x | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | x |
Cross-Cloud | x | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | x |
Interoperability | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
- Open Standards | 0 | 0 | x | x | 0 | x | x |
- Semantics | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
- MDE | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
- Open Libraries & Services | x | x | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | x | x | x |
Integration | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
- External IaaS/PaaS services | x | x | x | x | x | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | x |
- BYON | x | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | x | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | x | x |
Access | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
- Command-Line | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) |
- Web-based Dashboard | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) |
- Web-based API | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) | \(\mathbf {\checkmark }\) |