🆚 Cowboy vs. Tomcat

📈 Tomcat is much more popular than Cowboy.
🌎 Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Cowboy is more popular in the British Virgin Islands, the Philippines, and Cyprus.

Statistics based on 3.7M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Cowboy

Tomcat

Type

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 the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Server Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, and Jakarta WebSocket specifications.

It provides a servlet container and JSP engine for running Java web applications, supports HTTP/2 and virtual threads, implements a curated subset of Jakarta EE for lightweight deployment, and offers TLS certificate reload without downtime.

Headquarters

France

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

ninenines.eu #4,016,199

tomcat.apache.org

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tomcat web server is 24 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 the British Virgin Islands, the Philippines, and Cyprus.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

Netherlands

New Zealand

Germany

Korea

Norway

Switzerland

Awards

⭐ 4th most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the Philippines in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 10th most popular in the Netherlands in the Web Servers category.
🔥 11st most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.

⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Canada in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in New Zealand in the Web Servers category.

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

Travel

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#911

#951

#1,722

#3,440

#4,310

Name

Rank

#1,553

#2,574

#2,788

#3,344

#3,510