| Vendor | Programming Technology | Platform | Persistence Technology (e.g. Database) | Notes | Other links |
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| Windows Azure | .NET, PHP | Proprietory Windows Azure Platform |
Windows Azure Storage Services or SQL Azure |
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| Force.com – Salesforce platform | |||||
| Engine Yard | Ruby on Rails | ? | |||
| Heroku | Ruby on Rails | ? |
SQL Database based on MySQL or Amazon RDS |
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| Google App Engine |
Python and Java (and, by extension, other JVM languages such as Groovy, JRuby, Scala, and Clojure). Python web frameworks that run on Google App Engine include Django, CherryPy, Pylons, and web2py, as well as a custom Google-written webapp framework and several others designed specifically for the platform that emerged since the release |
? |
A Java DataStore or a Python DataStore. |
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| Wolf Frameworks | AJAX, XML, .NET | Browser-based and device independent | MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server | Wikipedia | |
| Rollbase | |||||
| Aptana Cloud |
General support for web/Ajax, PHP, Ruby on Rails and Jaxer. Cloud Connect also supports Java-based web applications. |
Apache ? | ? | ||
| Gigaspaces XAP Application Server | Java, C++ and .NET | ? | MySQL | ||
| Wave Maker |
POJOs, JOSSO, Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, WSDL, WADL, LDAP, ActiveDirectory (LDAP & ActiveDirectory only in Enterprise Edition) |
? |
Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, IBM DB2 (Only Postgres & MySQL in Community Edition) |
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| Amazon EC2 |
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Linux or Windows |
IBM DB2, IBM Informix Dynamic Server, Microsoft SQL Server Standard 2005, MySQL Enterprise, Oracle Database 11g via Amazon Simple DB or Amazon Relational Database Services . For an example see Running MySQL on Amazon EC2 with Elastic Block Store. |
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| RightScale | |||||
| FlexiScale | |||||
| GoGrid | |||||
| Commensus | Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP | Linux | SQL, MySQL |
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Dan 8:37 am on February 9, 2010 Permalink |
Hi Phil, you may have also read about companies that provide interfaces which aim to protect against a cloud failure, by allowing you to run your instances in multiple cloud providers! I can’t find the link i was thinking about but this is something similar:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/26/cloudkick_cloud_of_clouds_launch/
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Dan 11:51 am on February 10, 2010 Permalink |
Me again
here’s a good link explaining about force.com, providing more info than wikipedia:
http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/An_Introduction_to_Force_Database
I’m trying to dig out whether they still ultimately use oracle behind the scenes, or whether it is something else (although thats irrelevant really, just curious really)
Dan 11:56 am on February 10, 2010 Permalink |
Ah; It is oracle:
http://blog.dayspring-tech.com/2009/02/forcecom-multitenant-architecture-under-the-covers/