🆚 Google Cloud Load Balancing vs. Varnish

📈 Varnish is slightly more popular than Google Cloud Load Balancing.
🌎 Varnish is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Google Cloud Load Balancing is more popular in Japan, Canada, and the British Virgin Islands.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Google Cloud Load Balancing

Varnish

Type

Load balancer

Caching solution

About

Google Cloud Load Balancing is a managed load balancing service that distributes application traffic across virtual machines and containers on Google Cloud.

It supports global and regional load balancing, a single anycast IP address for worldwide deployments, automatic scaling without pre-warming, integration with Cloud CDN and Cloud Armor, and uses Envoy and Google Front End proxies to route and manage traffic.

Varnish Cache is an open-source HTTP accelerator and reverse caching proxy that caches content from web servers to reduce load times, and supports native TLS termination and Kubernetes deployments.

It uses the VCL configuration language compiled to native C code, serves cached responses in three system calls, provides official container images and a Helm chart for Kubernetes, outputs structured JSON logs, and supports VMOD extension modules.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Stockholm, Sweden

Website

cloud.google.com

varnish-cache.org #547,741

Pricing

Free version ❌

Forwarding rules First 5 $0.025/unit/hour
Additional $0.01/rule/hour

Inbound data $0.008+/GB

Outbound data $0.008+/GB

Free version ✔️ Open source

Varnish Enterprise Custom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Varnish caching solution is 1.2 times more popular than Google Cloud Load Balancing.

Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Varnish is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Google Cloud Load Balancing is more popular in Japan, Canada, and the British Virgin Islands.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Japan

Netherlands

Sweden

Denmark

Canada

Italy

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in India in the Load Balancers category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Varnish is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising, while Google Cloud Load Balancing is more commonly used on fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Entertainment

General News

Blogs/Wiki

Sports

Internet Services

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#17

#86

#93

#98

Name

Rank

#23

#42

#44

#45

#52