JBoss vs Puma

Overview

Puma

Stacks1.2K

Followers265

Votes20

GitHub Stars7.8K

Forks1.5K

JBoss

Stacks457

Followers255

Votes0

JBoss vs Puma: What are the differences?

JBoss: An open-source Java EE-based application server. An application platform for hosting your apps that provides an innovative modular, cloud-ready architecture, powerful management and automation, and world class developer productivity; Puma: A Modern, Concurrent Web Server for Ruby. Unlike other Ruby Webservers, Puma was built for speed and parallelism. Puma is a small library that provides a very fast and concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby web applications.

JBoss and Puma can be categorized as "Web Servers" tools.

Puma is an open source tool with 5.79K GitHub stars and 989 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Puma's open source repository on GitHub.

StackShare, Product Hunt, and esa are some of the popular companies that use Puma, whereas JBoss is used by Kanteron Systems, Syonet, and Tarya P2P. Puma has a broader approval, being mentioned in 73 company stacks & 31 developers stacks; compared to JBoss, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Puma	JBoss
Unlike other Ruby Webservers, Puma was built for speed and parallelism. Puma is a small library that provides a very fast and concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby web applications.	An application platform for hosting your apps that provides an innovative modular, cloud-ready architecture, powerful management and automation, and world class developer productivity.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 7.8K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 1.5K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 1.2K	Stacks 457
Followers 265	Followers 255
Votes 20	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 4 Free 3 Easy 3 Convenient 2 Consumes less memory than Unicorn 2 Multithreaded Cons 0 Uses `select` (limited client count)	No community feedback yet

What are some alternatives to Puma, JBoss?

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.

Unicorn

Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. Slow clients should only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering both the the request and response in between Unicorn and slow clients.

Microsoft IIS

Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.

Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.

Passenger

Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. It takes a lot of complexity out of deploying web apps, adds powerful enterprise-grade features that are useful in production, and makes administration much easier and less complex.

Gunicorn

Gunicorn is a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources, and fairly speedy.

Jetty

Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production. Jetty can be easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and clusters. See the Jetty Powered page for more uses of Jetty.

lighttpd

lighttpd has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software for every server that suffers load problems.

Swoole

It is an open source high-performance network framework using an event-driven, asynchronous, non-blocking I/O model which makes it scalable and efficient.