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Dryad vs. K3s Lightweight Kubernetes

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dryad
Score 7.9 out of 10
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Dryad is a large-scale IoT startup based in Berlin-Brandenburg. Formerly known as, Eywa Networks GmbH, Dryad's mission is to develop a large-scale environmental IoT network that allows public and private forest owners to monitor, analyze and protect the world’s largest, most remote forests. The initial focus is to develop a system for the ultra-early detection of wildfires.N/A
K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Score 9.1 out of 10
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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
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Free/Freemium Version
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Internet of Things
Comparison of Internet of Things features of Product A and Product B
Dryad
7.2
1 Ratings
9% below category average
K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
8.0
1 Ratings
1% above category average
IoT Device Management8.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Device Security7.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
IoT Data Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
IoT Analytics7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
IoT Integration6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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DryadK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Small Businesses
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core
Score 7.6 out of 10
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core
Score 7.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies

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Enterprises
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core
Score 7.6 out of 10
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core
Score 7.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
DryadK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
DryadK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend
Dryad Networks GmbH
Dryad is well suited for situations where you are lacking data and or on the lookout for more interesting datasets to work with. It is also easy to read about how the authors collected the data and even provides a link to email them in case you need more information.
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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.
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Pros
Dryad Networks GmbH
  • Data curation
  • Easy to use website
  • Data in any format
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SUSE
  • Virtual clusters
  • IoT devices
  • Local development
  • Raspberry Pi
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Cons
Dryad Networks GmbH
  • More incentives for people to contribute data
  • More promotion of the platform so people know about it
  • Expand data categories
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SUSE
  • Option to deploy a self managed k3s in the cloud
  • Support to deploy it with kubeadm
  • Integration with prometheus & grafana
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Alternatives Considered
Dryad Networks GmbH
The website isn't as clean as that for Dryad and there seems to be less support for the end-user. However, it appears that they also have a large number of data repositories and have backing from many well-known universities. Ultimately, it comes down to personal preference and likability.
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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.
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Return on Investment
Dryad Networks GmbH
  • 35% time saved when it comes to cleaning
  • Obviate the need for purchasing data
  • Do not need to hire people to collect data
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SUSE
  • Engineers have been able to run more microservices locally with K3s Lightweight Kubernetes instead of Minikube, which is more resources hungry
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