Google Compute Engine vs NATS

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Google Compute Engine

Stacks12.4K

Followers9.2K

Votes423

NATS

Stacks394

Followers498

Votes60

Google Compute Engine vs NATS: What are the differences?

Google Compute Engine: Run large-scale workloads on virtual machines hosted on Google's infrastructure. Google Compute Engine is a service that provides virtual machines that run on Google infrastructure. Google Compute Engine offers scale, performance, and value that allows you to easily launch large compute clusters on Google's infrastructure. There are no upfront investments and you can run up to thousands of virtual CPUs on a system that has been designed from the ground up to be fast, and to offer strong consistency of performance; NATS: Lightweight publish-subscribe & distributed queueing messaging system. Unlike traditional enterprise messaging systems, NATS has an always-on dial tone that does whatever it takes to remain available. This forms a great base for building modern, reliable, and scalable cloud and distributed systems.

Google Compute Engine and NATS are primarily classified as "Cloud Hosting" and "Realtime Backend / API" tools respectively.

"Backed by google" is the top reason why over 86 developers like Google Compute Engine, while over 13 developers mention "Fastest pub-sub system out there" as the leading cause for choosing NATS.

According to the StackShare community, Google Compute Engine has a broader approval, being mentioned in 594 company stacks & 429 developers stacks; compared to NATS, which is listed in 26 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.

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Advice on Google Compute Engine, NATS

Stephen

Artificial Intelligence Fellow

Feb 4, 2020

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GCE is much more user friendly than EC2, though Amazon has come a very long way since the early days (pre-2010's). This can be seen in how easy it is to edit the storage attached to an instance in GCE: it's under the instance details and is edited inline. In AWS you have to click the instance > click the storage block device (new screen) > click the edit option (new modal) > resize the volume > confirm (new model) then wait a very long time. Google's is nearly instant.

In both cases, the instance much be shut down.

There also the preference between "user burden-of-security" and automatic security: AWS goes for the former, GCE the latter.

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Detailed Comparison

Google Compute Engine	NATS
Google Compute Engine is a service that provides virtual machines that run on Google infrastructure. Google Compute Engine offers scale, performance, and value that allows you to easily launch large compute clusters on Google's infrastructure. There are no upfront investments and you can run up to thousands of virtual CPUs on a system that has been designed from the ground up to be fast, and to offer strong consistency of performance.	Unlike traditional enterprise messaging systems, NATS has an always-on dial tone that does whatever it takes to remain available. This forms a great base for building modern, reliable, and scalable cloud and distributed systems.
High-performance virtual machines- Compute Engine’s Linux VMs are consistently performant, scalable, highly secure and reliable. Supported distros include Debian and CentOS. You can choose from micro-VMs to large instances.;Powered by Google’s global network- Create large compute clusters that benefit from strong and consistent cross-machine bandwidth. Connect to machines in other data centers and to other Google services using Google’s private global fiber network.;(Really) Pay for what you use- Google bills in minute-level increments (with a 10-minute minimum charge), so you don’t pay for unused computing time.;Load balancing- Native load-balancing technology helps you spread incoming network traffic across a pool of instances, so you can achieve maximum performance, throughput and availability at low cost.;Fast and easy provisioning- Quickly deploy large clusters of virtual machines with intuitive tools including a RESTful API, command-line interface and web-based Console. You can also use tools such as RightScale and Scalr to automatically manage your deployment.;Compliance and security- All data written to disk in Compute Engine is encrypted at rest using the AES-128-CBC algorithm. Compute Engine has completed ISO 27001, SSAE-16, SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 certifications, demonstrating our commitment to information security.	-
Statistics
Stacks 12.4K	Stacks 394
Followers 9.2K	Followers 498
Votes 423	Votes 60
Pros & Cons
Pros 87 Backed by google 79 Easy to scale 75 High-performance virtual machines 57 Performance 52 Fast and easy provisioning	Pros 22 Fastest pub-sub system out there 16 Rock solid 12 Easy to grasp 4 Easy, Fast, Secure 4 Light-weight Cons 2 Persistence with Jetstream supported 1 No Persistence 1 No Order
Integrations
RightScale Qubole Scalr Boundary Red Hat Codeready Workspaces Kinvey New Relic Twilio SendGrid Zencoder	No integrations available

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Amazon EC2

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Firebase

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Socket.IO

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Microsoft Azure

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Linode

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