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OverSim vs. Overlay Weaver

Quick comparison on OverSim & Overlay Weaver
OverSimOverlay Weaver
SimulatorEmulator
OMNet++ basedStand alone package
C++ based. Some parts of the code is expected to be use for productionJava based. Code is expected to be use for production
GUI for demonstrations - more featuresGUI for demonstrations
No documentation - High learning curveNo documentation - High learning curve
Statistics, visualizing tools, vectors (time series)Some statistics
Many built in overlays - Chord, Pastry, Bamboo, Koorde, Broose, Kademlia, GIA, NICE, NTree, Quon, Vast, & Publish-SubscribeBuilt in overlays - Chord, Kademlia, Koorde, Pastry, Tapestry & FRT-Chord
Built in routing modes - Recursive, iterative, semi-recursiv, exhaustive-iterativeeBuilt in routing modes - Recursive, iterative
Built in applications - DHT, i3, scribe, P2PNS, KBRTestApp, DHTTestApp, & SimpleGameClientDHT & multicast
Relatively Fast - Up to 100,000 nodesSeveral thousand.
Underlay - simple & INETUnderlay. UDP & TCP on IPv4/IPV6Suppose to be work on a real network
Churn - Lifetime & ParetoNo information
GNU GPLApache License
No demosOnline demonstration of a DHT using PlanetLab. Some videos
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