When comparing LING vs OSv, the Slant community recommends OSv for most people. In the question“What are the best unikernels?” OSv is ranked 3rd while LING is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose OSv is:
OSv is able to boot in less than a second.
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Pros
Pro Highly integrated with Erlang
LING is highly compatible with Erlang and is able to easily understand .beam
files. Developers can write programs in Erlang and easily deploy it to LING unikernels.
Pro Few external libraries
LING is very lightweight. For example, it only uses three external libraries.
Pro Quick booting
OSv is able to boot in less than a second.
Pro Amazing performance
Since OSv is created to run one single application on top of a hypervisor, it offers great performance and speed.
Pro Supports multiple platforms
OSv can run applications written in multiple programming languages and that run on multiple different platforms. Such as Java, C, Ruby, Node and Scala. With support for other languages on the way.
Cons
Con Can only run one application at a time
Since it tries to have maximum performance, OSv can only afford to run one application per hypervisor at a time.