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page_title: Nomad vs. Other Software
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sidebar_title: Nomad vs. Other Software
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description: Comparisons between Nomad and other cluster managers.
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# Nomad vs. Other Software
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The following characteristics generally differentiate Nomad from related products:
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- **Simplicity**: Nomad runs as a single process with zero external dependencies.
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Operators can easily provision, manage, and scale Nomad. Developers can easily
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define and run applications.
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- **Flexibility**: Nomad can run a diverse workload of containerized, legacy,
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microservice, and batch applications. Nomad can schedule service, batch
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processing and system jobs, and can run on both Linux and Windows.
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- **Scalability and High Performance**: Nomad can schedule thousands of containers
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per second, scale to thousands of nodes in a single cluster, and easily federate
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across regions and cloud providers.
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- **HashiCorp Interoperability**: Nomad elegantly integrates with Vault for secrets
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management and Consul for service discovery and dynamic configuration. Nomad's
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Consul-like architecture and Terraform-like job specification lower the barrier
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to entry for existing users of the HashiCorp stack.
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There are many relevant categories for comparison including cluster managers,
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resource managers, workload managers, and schedulers. There are many existing
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tools in each category, and the comparisons are not exhaustive of the entire space.
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Due to the bias of the comparisons being on the Nomad website, we attempt to only
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use facts. If you find something that is invalid or out of date in the comparisons,
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please [open an issue](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues) and we will
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address it as soon as possible.
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Use the navigation on the left to read comparisons of Nomad versus other systems.
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