🆚 NetScaler vs. Varnish
- 📈 Varnish is much more popular than NetScaler.
- 🌎 Varnish is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
- 🌍 NetScaler is more popular in Turkey and Kuwait.
NetScaler
VarnishType
About
NetScaler is an application delivery and security platform that provides load balancing, application acceleration, and application protection for web applications and APIs.
It runs a single code base across hardware appliances, virtual machines, containers, and bare-metal 
Linux, applies web application firewall and bot protection in a single pass, and provides layer 4 through 7 load balancing, content switching, zero trust network access, single sign-on, and integrations with 
Splunk, Prometheus, and 
Elasticsearch.
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.
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Popularity
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the WAF category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Switzerland in the WAF category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the WAF category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in the United States in the WAF 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
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.