🆚 Cowboy vs. Tengine

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
Cowboy
Tengine

Type

Web server
Web server

About

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

Tengine is an open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.

Headquarters

France
Hangzhou, China

Website

ninenines.eu #4,016,199
tengine.taobao.org

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Web Servers › Rank #18
Web Servers › Rank #9

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tengine web server is 6 times more popular than Cowboy.
Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Tengine is more popular in China, the United States, and Hong Kong, while Cowboy is more popular in Brazil, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
China
United States
Brazil
Hong Kong
Germany
Japan
Taiwan
United Kingdom
Indonesia
Argentina

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Tengine is more popular than Cowboy in all market segments.
Business
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Games
Software/Hardware
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#3,593
#4,663
#5,555
#7,164
#13,184
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Name
Rank
#85
#163
#212
#223
#322
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See also

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