🆚 OpenResty vs. Tomcat
- 📈 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.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
OpenResty
TomcatType
Web server
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
tomcat.apache.orgPricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #5
Web Servers › Rank #6
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
United Kingdom
Netherlands
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
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Sports
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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GlassFish🗃️ About This Data
- 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.