🆚 Phusion Passenger vs. Tomcat

📈 Tomcat is much more popular than Phusion Passenger.
🌎 Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Phusion Passenger is more popular in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Phusion Passenger

Tomcat

Type

Web server

About

Phusion Passenger a fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js.

It can run standalone or as an Nginx or Apache module, provides rolling restarts for zero-downtime deployments, and uses "smart spawning" with copy-on-write to reduce memory usage.

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

Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

phusionpassenger.com #147,836

tomcat.apache.org

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Open source

Passenger Enterprise $44.56+/month

Free ✔️ Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tomcat web server is 10 times more popular than Phusion Passenger.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Phusion Passenger is more popular in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

Germany

New Zealand

Netherlands

France

Switzerland

Norway

Awards

⭐ 6th most popular in Ukraine in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Canada in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Poland in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Germany 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.

Tomcat is more popular than Phusion Passenger in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Restaurants

Online Shopping

Travel

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#2,261

#4,651

#5,341

#6,763

#6,793

Name

Rank

#1,553

#2,574

#2,788

#3,344

#3,510