🆚 Sails vs. Vapor

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Backend framework
Backend framework

About

Sails is an enterprise-grade MVC framework for Node.js designed to build data-driven APIs and realtime web applications.

It includes the Waterline ORM for working with multiple databases, auto-generated REST endpoints via blueprints, front-end agnosticism, WebSocket support out of the box, and reusable security policies.

Vapor is a server-side HTTP web framework written in Swift used for building RESTful APIs, web applications, and real-time features via WebSockets.

It offers a non-blocking architecture based on SwiftNIO, a type-safe ORM called Fluent supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and SQLite, Leaf templating, built-in authentication (including JWT), middleware, and validation.

Headquarters

Austin, Texas, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Backend Frameworks › Rank #37
Backend Frameworks › Rank #64

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Sails backend framework is 39 times more popular than Vapor.
Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Sails is more popular in Japan, France, and the United States, while Vapor is more popular in Russia.
Japan
France
United States
Russia
United Kingdom
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Vietnam
Singapore
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Sails is more popular than Vapor in all market segments.
Business
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Travel
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Health
Real Estate
Finance/Banking
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#33,345
#33,913
#119,879
#120,893
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Rank
#2,447,586

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