🆚 Nginx vs. WebSphere Application Server

Type

Web server
Web server

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.

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IBM WebSphere Application Server is a flexible, secure Java server runtime environment designed to accelerate the delivery of enterprise applications.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States
Armonk, New York, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Open source
NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition $3,500+/year
Free version ✔️ ILAN, non-supported, non-warranted
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition standard $759/month
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications Custom

Categories

Web Servers › Rank #1
Web Servers › Rank #20
Caching › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Nginx web server is 2,920 times more popular than WebSphere Application Server.
Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Nginx is more popular than WebSphere Application Server in all countries.
United States
Japan
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
France
China

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Nginx is more popular than WebSphere Application Server in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
General News
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
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Rank
#1,294
#6,624
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See also

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