Station vs Bacalhau vs IPVM
Comparison Table
| Station | Bacalhau | IPVM | |
|---|---|---|---|
| One liner | Station enables anyone to provide their hardware as a deployment target for workers in the Filecoin economy, in exchange for FIL. | Bacalhau is a platform for fast, cost efficient, and secure computation by running jobs where the data is generated and stored | IPVM is a specification for bringing content-addressed execution to content-addressed data on IPFS. An open, decentralised, and local-first competitor to AWS Lambda |
| Links | https://filstation.app | https://docs.bacalhau.org | https://github.com/ipvm-wg |
| Use Cases | A deployment target for a module that listens to chain updates and performs jobs based on them like indexing or uptime checking. | Bacalhau shines when it comes to data-intensive applications like data engineering, model training, model inference, model training, model dynamics | Access control for data stored on an IPFS node |
Statements
- Station is a deployment target, whereas IPVM is a specification. One could build an implementation of IPVM as a station module.
- Bacalhau is concerned with data-intensive use cases and computing where the data resides. Station is concerned with providing a valuable deployment target for networks.