🆚 OpenResty vs. Tomcat
- 📈 OpenResty is noticeably more popular than Tomcat.
- 🌍 OpenResty is more popular in China, Korea, and Russia.
- 🌎 Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
OpenResty
TomcatType
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 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
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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
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Web Servers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Slovakia 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 the British Virgin Islands in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in New Zealand 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.
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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🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.