Hi Sam, Good work - thanks! I think this is a very good level at which to be comparing the various APIs, and highlights differences well. One question - you've said that all public clouds lack enterprise features vs. VMware, etc. Is it worth adding a VMware column and exposing these extra features on a few new rows? I can see a few already (request signing, resource categories and search), but suspect there are others (e.g. role hierarchies?) and also that someone with a more enterprisey background would do better than me in adding these. Cheers, Richard. Sam Johnston wrote:
Morning all,
I've just finished the first pass of the OCCI FeatureMatrix which compares APIs on a functional (rather than per-function) basis. If we want to be an implementation candidate for these APIs then we're going to have to be capable of exposing as much of the existing functionality as possible - which is to say that we're going to end up with something of a superset (hence the solid ticks in the OCCI column, except for a few things we haven't thought about yet).
Some of the suggested APIs were dropped because they are not comparable or simply don't exist (e.g. Mosso CloudSites). We'll add new rows as interesting features are raised and new columns for new APIs.
Cheers,
Sam