🆚 Apache Traffic Server vs. Envoy

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Envoy is much more popular than Apache Traffic Server.
🌎 Envoy is more popular in the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Apache Traffic Server is more popular in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Apache Traffic Server

Envoy

Type

Caching solution

Load balancer

About

Apache Traffic Server is a fast, scalable, and extensible web proxy cache that improves performance by caching frequently accessed information at the edge of the network.

Envoy is a high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures.

It provides advanced L4/L7 load balancing, HTTP/2 and gRPC proxying, service discovery integration, observability with distributed tracing and rich metrics, and dynamic configuration via xDS APIs.

Headquarters

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

trafficserver.apache.org

envoyproxy.io #121,897

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Envoy load balancer is 8 times more popular than Apache Traffic Server.

Total websites

Market share

Caching

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Envoy is more popular in the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, while Apache Traffic Server is more popular in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

United States

Czech Republic

Netherlands

United Kingdom

Germany

Brazil

Canada

Japan

France

Australia