🆚 OpenResty vs. Tomcat

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 OpenResty is twice as popular as Tomcat.
🌍 OpenResty is more popular in China, Korea, and the Netherlands.
🌎 Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

OpenResty

Tomcat

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.

Apache Tomcat is an open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications.

Headquarters

Millbrae, California, United States

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

openresty.org #161,345

tomcat.apache.org

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The OpenResty web server is 2.4 times more popular than Tomcat.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

OpenResty is more popular in China, Korea, and the Netherlands, while Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

United States

China

Korea

Netherlands

United Kingdom

Russia

Germany

Slovakia

Australia

Czech Republic

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.

⭐ 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 Indonesia 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.

OpenResty is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Tomcat is more commonly used on non-profit, advocacy and NGO, restaurants, and health sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Travel

Sports

General News