Cloud Hosting – Platform as a Service Vendors List | Phil Leggetter - Real-Time Web Software and Technology Evangelist

Vendor	Programming Technology	Platform	Persistence Technology (e.g. Database)	Notes	Other links
Windows Azure	.NET, PHP	Proprietory Windows Azure Platform	Windows Azure Storage Services or SQL Azure		Wikipedia
Force.com – Salesforce platform					Wikipedia
Engine Yard	Ruby on Rails	?			Wikipedia
Heroku	Ruby on Rails	?	SQL Database based on PostgreSQL or Amazon RDS		Wikipedia Heroku Architecture
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.		Wikipedia
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 ?	?		Wikipedia
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)
Amazon EC2	Web Hosting: Apache HTTP, IIS/Asp.Net Application Development Environments: IBM sMash, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Ruby on Rails Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server, Java Application Server, Oracle WebLogic Server Video Encoding & Streaming: Wowza Media Server Pro Windows Media Server	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.		Wikipedia
RightScale
FlexiScale
GoGrid
Commensus	Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP	Linux	SQL, MySQL
Younicycle	Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL 9.x, Php, AS3	CentOs, Debian	PostgreSQL 9.x	Available as an online service, but also as a separate server install for a local server. Comprehensive solutions (with all objects) can be Packaged/bundled and exchanged – or sold. Upon install, all objects are renamed, scripts and paths automatically rewritten
cloudControl	PHP	Linux / LAMP	MySQL, MongoDB	automatic scalability, add-ons like memcached can be added, integrated version control, no lock-in
JRapid	Java, POJOs, Hibernate, RESTful Controller, HTML, JavaScript	Any Servlet Container	Every DB supported by Hibernate	Scalable, highly customizable, Eclipse Plugin
Fuscan Linux Cloud	L.A.M.P Cloud automation platform, Supports Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, etc. Fullay automated with cPanel/WHM hosting control panel. Allows for load-balancing of IP based virtual hosts in cPanel.	Linux, L.A.M.P Cloud	MySQL, PostgreSQL
BeeMaster ICT	J2ee App Server: Jboss Development tools: Maven, Eclipse, BIRT, Subversion.	Linux, Windows, Solaris, Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu, SLES, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, FreeBSD	MySQL, LDAP	Transport: HTTP(S), SMTP(S), RMI, TCP, UDP, JBossWS, Axis Security: JAAS, SSL, TLS Containers: EJB, Hibernate, Tomcat, Seam, JBossWS Flexible deployments topology: ESB, Client Server, Peer-to-peer, HUB, pipeline Event handling: Asynchronous, SEDA, Streaming, Synchronous, Transactions, Routing Patterns Web services: WSDL/SOAP, Restlet Languages Java, Javascript, Data formats: XML, Byte arrays, Java Objects, Hex Strings Data transformation: XSLT Front end: Servlets, JSF, Facelets, RichFaces Management: JMX, Logging, SNMP, Configuration: GUI Scheduling: Quartz Other: Message Journaling, Routing Patterns, Scheduled Execution, Performance and stability: Multi resource transactions, Retry policies for self-healing connectivity
StratoGen VMware Hosting	Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP . Fully automated provisioning of any VMware image.	Linux, Lamp, Windows	MySql, Postgres, Oracle	Next generation platform based on VMware vCloud Director. Build entire virtual datacentre in the cloud.

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Dan

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

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)