🆚 Nginx vs. Tomcat
- 📈 Nginx is much more popular than Tomcat.
- 🌍 Nginx is more popular in all countries.
Nginx
TomcatType
About
Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy designed for handling large volumes of concurrent connections with low memory usage.
It supports serving static files, reverse proxying, load balancing for HTTP, TCP, and UDP traffic, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, 
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, 
WebSocket proxying, response compression, and zero-downtime configuration reloads.
Apache Tomcat is an open-source 
Java application server that implements the 
Jakarta Servlet, 
Jakarta Server Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, and Jakarta WebSocket specifications.
It provides a servlet container and JSP engine for running Java web applications, supports HTTP/2 and virtual threads, implements a curated subset of Jakarta EE for lightweight deployment, and offers TLS certificate reload without downtime.
Headquarters
tomcat.apache.orgPricing
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Canada in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in New Zealand in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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 3,711,310 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.