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| 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 PostgreSQL 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 |
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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) |
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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 | ||
| 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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