Altair SmartWorks vs. K3s Lightweight Kubernetes

Altair SmartWorks

K3s Lightweight Kubernetes

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Altair SmartWorks	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Altair SmartWorks, or SmartCore (formerly Carriots) offers an end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) platform. SmartWorks is available as Platform as a Service (PaaS) or on-premise, and designed for machine to machine (M2M) and digital twin projects. SmartWorks accelerates your IoT application development and provides simple scalability as your projects and devices grow. Altair SmartWorks lets users collect and store data from connected devices, build powerful applications, deploy and scale from…	N/A
K3s Lightweight Kubernetes	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	K3s is a lightweight, certified Kubernetes distribution built for IoT & Edge computing, developed by Rancher Labs, which is now supported by SUSE since the 2020 acquisition. K3s is available free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license.	N/A

Pricing

Altair SmartWorks

K3s Lightweight Kubernetes

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Altair SmartWorks	K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

$2 devices

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Altair SmartWorks	K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Top Pros	Pro Development work Pro Access information Pro Ability to review	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus No negative Minus Manage data Minus Back end	No answers on this topic

Features

Altair SmartWorks

K3s Lightweight Kubernetes

Internet of Things

Comparison of Internet of Things features of Product A and Product B
	Altair SmartWorks 9.4 1 Ratings 17% above category average	K3s Lightweight Kubernetes 8.0 1 Ratings 1% above category average
IoT Device Management	9.01 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Device Security	9.01 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
IoT Data Management	9.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
IoT Analytics	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
IoT Integration	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Altair SmartWorks	K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Small Businesses	AWS IoT Core Score 7.6 out of 10	AWS IoT Core Score 7.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Enterprises	AWS IoT Core Score 7.6 out of 10	AWS IoT Core Score 7.6 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Altair SmartWorks	K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Altair SmartWorks	K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend	Altair Engineering, Inc. Because Altair does not handle the area of automated marketing plans adequately, it is not as relevant in the implementation for marketing agencies, but this is easy to solve if you use an external tool to execute mail marketing campaigns, and thus also cover the project advertising, or send informative announcements about the progress of the project. Incentivized Jeniriana Rodriguez Web Designer / Content Management Specialist Read full review	SUSE K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is well suited for local development. K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is not well suited when you need backward support. In the case that you want to test an application that is still using deprecated APIs or CRDs which are supported on popular managed Cloud Kubernetes Distributions, because K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is trying to be a lightweight application and dropping early support for APIs/CRDs marked for deprication K3s Lightweight Kubernetes will not be a good solution. If you are trying to test Kubernetes etc, functionality, K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is not a good case since it's using Dqlite or SQLite. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Altair Engineering, Inc. No answers on this topic	SUSE Virtual clusters IoT devices Local development Raspberry Pi Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Altair Engineering, Inc. Since the service can be used to manage development in teams of various sizes, we can conclude that Altair Smartworks can be used in almost all kinds of areas that require code development for projects, and with this, we decide that there are no negative points about the platform that can affect our experience of use. Incentivized Jeniriana Rodriguez Web Designer / Content Management Specialist Read full review	SUSE Option to deploy a self managed k3s in the cloud Support to deploy it with kubeadm Integration with prometheus & grafana Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Altair Engineering, Inc. No answers on this topic	SUSE We have mostly used kind, minikube, and Docker Desktop Kubernetes for local development. Only kind has lower resource requirements, but K3s Lightweight Kubernetes seems to be even lighter. It is a big benefit to be able to deploy a K3s Lightweight Kubernetes cluster in seconds locally in our workstation, there is no cost, and it makes it easy to redeploy from scratch no matter how many times we want. The removal of deprecated APIs or CRDs also makes it more secure since it reduces unnecessarily exposed attack vectors. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Altair Engineering, Inc. In view of the fact that profits have proven to be exemplary during the last quarter that we have been working with Altair to cover our operations, as our ROI has increased by 4. In reality, results may vary depending on both how easy it is for employees to get used to the service and to deliver bottom-line profits, but overall the results are promising. Incentivized Jeniriana Rodriguez Web Designer / Content Management Specialist Read full review	SUSE Engineers have been able to run more microservices locally with K3s Lightweight Kubernetes instead of Minikube, which is more resources hungry Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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