Paper Info
Title
A Performance Survey of Lightweight Virtualization Techniques.
Abstract
The increasing prevalence of the microservice paradigm creates a new demand for low-overhead virtualization techniques. Complementing containerization, unikernels are emerging as alternative approaches. With both techniques undergoing rapid improvements, the current landscape of lightweight virtualization approaches presents a confusing scenery, complicating the task of choosing a suited technology for an intended purpose. This work provides a comprehensive performance comparison covering containers, unikernels, whole-system virtualization, native hardware, and combinations thereof. Representing common workloads in microservice-based applications, we assess application performance using HTTP servers and a key-value store. With the microservice deployment paradigm in mind, we evaluate further characteristics such as startup time, image size, network latency, and memory footprint.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-67262-5_3
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Virtualization,Software deployment,Containerization,Latency (engineering),Computer science,Server,Memory footprint,Operating system,Embedded system
Conference
10465
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
3
0.41
References 
Authors
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Max Plauth1267.53
Lena Feinbube251.46
Andreas Polze326851.57