Apache Mesos vs Sauce Labs: What are the differences?
What is Apache Mesos? Develop and run resource-efficient distributed systems. Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.
What is Sauce Labs? Test mobile or web apps instantly across 700+ browser/OS/device platform combinations - without infrastructure setup. Cloud-based automated testing platform enables developers and QEs to perform functional, JavaScript unit, and manual tests with Selenium or Appium on web and mobile apps. Videos and screenshots for easy debugging. Secure and CI-ready.
Apache Mesos can be classified as a tool in the "Cluster Management" category, while Sauce Labs is grouped under "Browser Testing".
Some of the features offered by Apache Mesos are:
- Fault-tolerant replicated master using ZooKeeper
- Scalability to 10,000s of nodes
- Isolation between tasks with Linux Containers
On the other hand, Sauce Labs provides the following key features:
- 700+ browser/OS/device combinations for cross-browser and platform testing to improve web and mobile app quality and eliminate the overhead of internal infrastructure
- Highly reliable, on-demand cloud for enterprise-grade scalability and industry standard security
- Optimized for popular testing frameworks, CI systems, and surrounding tools and services
"Easy scaling" is the top reason why over 19 developers like Apache Mesos, while over 54 developers mention "Selenium-compatible" as the leading cause for choosing Sauce Labs.
Airbnb, Netflix, and Twitter are some of the popular companies that use Apache Mesos, whereas Sauce Labs is used by Lyft, Coursera, and Yelp. Apache Mesos has a broader approval, being mentioned in 61 company stacks & 19 developers stacks; compared to Sauce Labs, which is listed in 66 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
