🆚 OpenResty vs. Tengine

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 OpenResty is much more popular than Tengine.
🌎 OpenResty is more popular in the United States, Korea, and the Netherlands.
🌍 Tengine is more popular in China, Cambodia, and Macao.

OpenResty

Tengine

Type

Web server

About

OpenResty is an Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server.

It embeds Lua, a lightweight scripting language, into Nginx's event-driven architecture, enabling high-performance dynamic request handling, asynchronous I/O, API and microservice development, traffic control, caching, authentication, and logging.

Tengine is an open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.

Headquarters

Millbrae, California, United States

Hangzhou, China

Website

openresty.org #161,345

tengine.taobao.org

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The OpenResty web server is 12 times more popular than Tengine.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

OpenResty is more popular in the United States, Korea, and the Netherlands, while Tengine is more popular in China, Cambodia, and Macao.

China

United States

Korea

Netherlands

Russia

Slovakia

Germany

Czech Republic

United Kingdom

Vietnam

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Samoa in the Web Servers category.
🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Web Servers category.
🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
🥉 Third most popular in Slovakia in the Web Servers category.
🥉 Third most popular in Seychelles in the Web Servers category.

⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Taiwan in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Singapore in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Argentina in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

OpenResty is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Tengine is more commonly used on games sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Internet Services

Education/Reference

General News

Travel

Software/Hardware