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Cowboy vs Kore: What are the differences?
What is Cowboy? Small, fast, modular HTTP server written in Erlang. Cowboy aims to provide a complete HTTP stack in a small code base. It is optimized for low latency and low memory usage, in part because it uses binary strings. Cowboy provides routing capabilities, selectively dispatching requests to handlers written in Erlang.
What is Kore? A fast web server for writing web apps in C. Kore is an easy to use web application framework for writing scalable web APIs in C. Its main goals are security, scalability and allowing rapid development and deployment of such APIs. Because of this Kore is an ideal candidate for building robust, scalable and secure web things.
Cowboy and Kore can be categorized as "Web Servers" tools.
Cowboy and Kore are both open source tools. Cowboy with 5.59K GitHub stars and 999 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Kore with 3.09K GitHub stars and 282 GitHub forks.
Pros of Cowboy
- Websockets integration8
- Cool name6
- Good to use with Erlang3
- Anime mascot2
Pros of Kore
- SPDY2
- Super-lightweight1
- Super-fast1
- Full featured1
- HTTPS1