The Nexqloud Advantage: When to Use Each Technology

Information about when to use each NexQloud technology

Architectural Comparison: A Side-by-Side View

Side-by-side comparison of architectural approaches

How NexQloud technologies complement rather than compete

NexQloud's role as a partner in architectural design

Strategic guidance for choosing the right architectural approach

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The key to understanding containerization is contrasting it with traditional virtualization.

Aspect	Traditional Virtualization (VMs)	Containerization
Unit of Abstraction	Hardware. A Hypervisor virtualizes the physical server.	Operating System. [cite_start]Containers virtualize the OS kernel.
What's Packaged	A full Guest OS, the application, libraries, and binaries.	Only the Application, its libraries, and dependencies.
Size	Heavy (Gigabytes) due to the included OS.	Lightweight (Megabytes) as it shares the host OS kernel.
Startup Time	Slow (minutes) as the entire OS must boot.	Near-instantaneous (seconds).
Performance	Good, but with the overhead of a full OS.	Excellent, near-native performance.
Density	Lower; fewer VMs per server due to resource overhead.	High; you can run many more containers on the same hardware.