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24 alternatives to Eureka - Beta

An on-demand compute cluster for researchers

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Eureka - Beta launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1BA
   Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat▲160

   2016 · pfrazee.github.io · its alternatives →

2. 2ML
   MCVirt – Lightweight VM clustering using distributed storage (DRBD)▲46

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3AI
   AWS Infrastructure for Stanford Course in Parallel Programming▲48

   2014 · elliottslaughter.com · its alternatives →

4. 4SL
   Servasm – Literate web server in x86 assembler▲117

   2015 · zarkzork.com · its alternatives →

5. 5FA
   FaunaDB, a strongly consistent, globally distributed cloud database▲131

   2017 · fauna.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Datazar 2.0▲118

   Advanced, cloud-based research collaboration

   2017 · its alternatives →

7. 7GV
   Goldpinger – Visualize Kubernetes cluster connectivity▲158

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8KK
   KubeDB – Kubernetes-ready production-grade databases▲108

   2018 · kubedb.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Onyx▲7

   Distributed computation for the cloud

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    MemSQL Community Edition▲89

    A database so scalable everyone can use it

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Datomic▲73

    Distributed immutable transactional database for the cloud

    2014 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    KORE.io▲88

    A fast SPDY capable web server for web development in C

    2015 · its alternatives →

13. 13AO
    An open distributed search engine for science▲98

    2014 · juretriglav.si · its alternatives →

14. 14SV
    Simple virtual machine, assembler, and C compiler▲99

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Citus Cloud▲89

    A database for building real-time apps on billions of events

    2016 · its alternatives →

16. 16BS
    Blabr – Scientific Computing for the Web▲106

    2015 · blabr.io · its alternatives →

17. 17KA
    Kubespy, a CLI tool for observing Kubernetes resources in real time▲99

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Beaker Notebook▲93

    The polyglot’s universal translator for data science

    2015 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    MatrixDS▲79

    The data community's workbench

    2018 · its alternatives →

20. 20XV
    Xs-vm – A small virtual machine written in Python▲34

    2015 · gedrap.github.io · its alternatives →

21. 21NA
    NanoStack – A Virtual supercomputer powered by smart devices▲29

    2018 · nanostack.io · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Joyent Manta▲66

    Big Compute for Big Data

    2014 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Dispy▲8

    A python module for distributed and parallel computing

    2017 · its alternatives →

24. 24GO
    Greta, our script for decentralized data distribution▲14

    2016 · greta.io · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →