🆚 Cowboy vs. Google Servlet Engine

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Web server
Web server

About

Cowboy is a small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports Websocket, HTTP/2, and REST.

Google Servlet Engine (GSE) is a fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.

Headquarters

France
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Web Servers › Rank #18
Web Servers › Rank #8

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Servlet Engine web server is 8 times more popular than Cowboy.
Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Servlet Engine is more popular in the United States, Indonesia, and India, while Cowboy is more popular in Switzerland, Israel, and Iceland.
United States
Indonesia
India
Brazil
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Germany
Italy
Poland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Servlet Engine is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, education and reference, and entertainment, while Cowboy is more commonly used on business sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Business
Entertainment
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
General News
Sports
Technical/Business Forums
Online Shopping

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#3,593
#7,164
#13,184
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