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AWS Snowball Edge vs Gatling: What are the differences?
What is AWS Snowball Edge? Petabyte-scale data transport with on-board storage and compute. AWS Snowball Edge is a 100TB data transfer device with on-board storage and compute capabilities. You can use Snowball Edge to move large amounts of data into and out of AWS, as a temporary storage tier for large local datasets, or to support local workloads in remote or offline locations.
What is Gatling? open-source load testing framework based on Scala, Akka and Netty. Gatling is a highly capable load testing tool. It is designed for ease of use, maintainability and high performance Out of the box, Gatling comes with excellent support of the HTTP protocol that makes it a tool of choice for load testing any HTTP server. As the core engine is actually protocol agnostic, it is perfectly possible to implement support for other protocols. For example, Gatling currently also ships JMS support..
AWS Snowball Edge can be classified as a tool in the "Data Transfer" category, while Gatling is grouped under "Load and Performance Testing".
Gatling is an open source tool with 4.28K GitHub stars and 912 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gatling's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of AWS Snowball Edge
- SBManager™ is the only commercially available GUI for t1
Pros of Gatling
- Great detailed reports6
- Can run in cluster mode5
- Loadrunner5
- Scala based3
- Load test as code2
- Faster0
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Cons of AWS Snowball Edge
Cons of Gatling
- Steep Learning Curve2
- Hard to test non-supported protocols1
- Not distributed0