What is GeoServer?
It is developed, tested, and supported as community-driven project by a diverse group of individuals and organizations. It is designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards.
GeoServer is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.
GeoServer is an open source tool with 3.9K GitHub stars and 2.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to GeoServer's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses GeoServer?
Companies
19 companies reportedly use GeoServer in their tech stacks, including Labs, Climatempo, and Platform.
Developers
68 developers on StackShare have stated that they use GeoServer.
GeoServer Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to GeoServer?
ArcGIS
It is a geographic information system for working with maps and geographic information. It is used for creating and using maps, compiling geographic data, analyzing mapped information, sharing and much more.
PostGIS
PostGIS is a spatial database extender for PostgreSQL object-relational database. It adds support for geographic objects allowing location queries to be run in SQL.
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.