🆚 Heroku Vegur vs. Varnish

Type

Load balancer
Caching solution

About

Heroku Vegur is open-source proxy and load balancing software.

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

San Francisco, California, United States
Stockholm, Sweden

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free version ✔️ Open source
Varnish Enterprise Custom

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #15
Load Balancers › Rank #1
Caching › Rank #4

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Varnish caching solution is 97 times more popular than Heroku Vegur.
Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Varnish is more popular than Heroku Vegur in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Denmark
Netherlands
Sweden
Norway
Belgium
Japan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Varnish is more popular than Heroku Vegur in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
General News
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Sports
Internet Services
Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#15,585
#16,705
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See also

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