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WPARs VS Solaris Zones

Compare WPARs VS Solaris Zones and see what are their differences

WPARs logo WPARs

The most popular innovation of IBM AIX Version 6.

Solaris Zones logo Solaris Zones

Container Engine
  • WPARs Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-08-22
  • Solaris Zones Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-02-14

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to WPARs and Solaris Zones)
Cloud Computing
46 46%
54% 54
Developer Tools
30 30%
70% 70
Web Servers
44 44%
56% 56
Containers As A Service
43 43%
57% 57

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing WPARs and Solaris Zones, you can also consider the following products

Docker Hub - Docker Hub is a cloud-based registry service

Apache Mesos - Apache Mesos abstracts resources away from machines, enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively.

runc - CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification - opencontainers/runc

Sandboxie - Sandboxie is a program for Windows that is designed to allow the user to isolate individual programs on the hard drive.

rkt - App Container runtime

CoreOS - CoreOS platform provides the components needed to build distributed systems to support application containers.