🆚 Tomcat vs. WebSphere Application Server

📈 Tomcat is much more popular than WebSphere Application Server.
🌎 Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 WebSphere Application Server is more popular in Saudi Arabia, Panama, and Qatar.

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

Tomcat

WebSphere Application Server

Type

Web server

About

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.

IBM WebSphere Application Server is a flexible, secure Java server runtime environment designed to accelerate the delivery of enterprise applications.

Headquarters

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Armonk, New York, United States

Website

tomcat.apache.org

ibm.com #66

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Free version ✔️ ILAN, non-supported, non-warranted

IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition standard $759/month

IBM Cloud Pak for Applications Custom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tomcat web server is 118 times more popular than WebSphere Application Server.

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 WebSphere Application Server is more popular in Saudi Arabia, Panama, and Qatar.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

New Zealand

Netherlands

Germany

Korea

Norway

Switzerland

Awards

⭐ 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.

🔥 20th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Tomcat is more popular than WebSphere Application Server in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Restaurants

Blogs/Wiki

Online Shopping

Travel

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#1,553

#2,574

#2,788

#3,344

#3,510

Name

Rank

#1,181

#1,294

#2,707

#5,690

#6,624