🆚 HAProxy vs. Istio

Type

Load balancer
Load balancer

About

HAProxy is an open-source load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

It provides multiple load-balancing algorithms, TLS/SSL termination and certificate management, Lua scripting, a runtime API, hitless reloads, and built-in metrics for Prometheus.

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Istio is an open-source service mesh that secures, connects, and monitors services in Kubernetes, virtual machines, and multi-cloud environments.

It can run with Envoy proxies injected into each service or in a proxy-free ambient mode, and provides canary releases, load balancing, circuit breakers, mutual TLS authentication, and observability through metrics, logs, and distributed traces for Prometheus and Grafana.

Headquarters

Newton, Massachusetts, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Community edition, open source
HAProxy Enterprise Custom
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #14
Load Balancers › Rank #11
Caching › Rank #21
Application Monitoring › Rank #9

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Istio load balancer is 2.2 times more popular than HAProxy.
Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Istio is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, while HAProxy is more popular in Germany, France, and Poland.
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Germany
Spain
France
Brazil
China
India
Korea

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Istio is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and entertainment, while HAProxy is more commonly used on software and hardware, fashion and beauty, and non-profit, advocacy and NGO sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Travel
General News
Marketing/Merchandising
Sports
Real Estate
Internet Services
Education/Reference

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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