🆚 Sails vs. Vapor

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
New York, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Backend Frameworks › Rank #36
Backend Frameworks › Rank #66

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Sails backend framework is 55 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, the United States, and France, while Vapor is more popular in Russia.
Japan
United States
France
Russia
India
Poland
Netherlands
Australia
Singapore
Taiwan

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
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Health
Travel
Software/Hardware
Content Server

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#33,345
#33,913
#119,879
#120,893
#121,429
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Name
Rank
#945,441
#2,447,586

See also

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