🆚 Grails vs. Struts

📈 Struts is much more popular than Grails.
🌎 Struts is more popular in Korea, the United States, and China.
🌍 Grails is more popular in Poland.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Grails

Struts

Type

Backend framework

About

Grails is a Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot.

It integrates GORM for object-relational mapping, supports SQL, MongoDB, and Neo4j, and offers built-in tools for asynchronous programming, JSON rendering, and RESTful APIs.

Apache Struts is an open-source MVC framework for creating modern Java web applications.

It features a plugin architecture supporting REST, AJAX, and JSON, a robust interceptor stack, POJO-based actions, simplified configuration through XML scanning, custom tag libraries, and modular extensions.

Headquarters

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

grails.org #188,170

struts.apache.org

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Struts backend framework is 24 times more popular than Grails.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Struts is more popular in Korea, the United States, and China, while Grails is more popular in Poland.

Korea

United States

China

Japan

Poland

United Kingdom

Germany

Hong Kong

India

Spain

Awards

🔥 12nd most popular in Poland in the Backend Frameworks category.

🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Backend Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Hong Kong in the Backend Frameworks category.
⭐ 9th most popular in China in the Backend Frameworks category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Taiwan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Struts is more popular than Grails in all market segments.

Business

Education/Reference

Government/Military

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Finance/Banking

Travel

Internet Services

Software/Hardware

Public Information

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#54,798

#222,779

#286,551

#492,587

#496,037

Name

Rank

#349

#530

#1,356

#1,537

#1,707