🆚 Ruby on Rails vs. Yii Framework

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Ruby on Rails is much more popular than Yii Framework.
🌎 Ruby on Rails is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Yii Framework is more popular in Russia, Belgium, and Ukraine.

Type

Backend framework

About

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack framework that includes everything needed to build database-driven web applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

It emphasizes a standardized folder structure and naming, follows DRY ("don't repeat yourself") and the "convention over configuration" principles, provides an Active Record ORM, a built-in asset pipeline for CSS and JavaScript preprocessing, and an integrated testing framework.

Yii is an open-source, object-oriented, component-based MVC PHP web application framework.

It includes an implementation of the Active Record design pattern for database interaction, RESTful API support, multi-tier caching, role-based access control, and Gii, a code generation tool.

Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Website

rubyonrails.org #180,446

yiiframework.com #472,542

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Ruby on Rails backend framework is 8 times more popular than Yii Framework.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Ruby on Rails is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Yii Framework is more popular in Russia, Belgium, and Ukraine.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

India

Netherlands

Canada

Japan

France

Italy

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Backend Frameworks category.

🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥈 Second most popular in Kazakhstan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥉 Third most popular in Belgium in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥉 Third most popular in Uzbekistan in the Backend Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Ruby on Rails is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Yii Framework is more commonly used on health and finance and banking sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Business

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Sports

Software/Hardware