🆚 Cowboy vs. Tomcat

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

Type

Web server
Web server

About

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

Apache Tomcat is an open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications.

Headquarters

France
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

ninenines.eu #4,016,199
tomcat.apache.org

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Web Servers › Rank #18
Web Servers › Rank #6

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tomcat web server is 31 times more popular than Cowboy.
Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Cowboy is more popular in Brazil.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
Indonesia
Netherlands
Germany
New Zealand
Korea
Switzerland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Tomcat is more popular than Cowboy in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Restaurants
Online Shopping
Health
Sports

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
#1,553
#1,737
#2,574
#2,788
#3,344
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See also

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